The Phia Group Blog

By: David Ostrowsky For well over a century, medical oxygen has been used for treating patients with an assortment of medical needs, most notably respiratory issues such as pneumonia, as well as those undergoing surgery, experiencing heart failure, and receiving…

By: David Ostrowsky Every year, tens of millions of opioid prescriptions are written for Americans experiencing searing pain caused by broken bones, burns, procedures, and wounds. In most cases, the medications produce efficacious results without causing patients to become overly…

By: Ron E. Peck, Esq. and David Ostrowsky Traditional health benefit plans and insurance carriers pay medical bills that generally fall into one of two buckets, based on the “network status” of the applicable healthcare services provider. If the benefit…

By: Kendall Jackson, Esq. As we close out the first month of 2025 with a new administration, the vast number of new proposals related to reducing government spending is unsurprising. Only a week ago, two documents were leaked related to…

By: David Ostrowsky When you’re shopping for a new car, you expect that shelling out more money will correlate with a more high-powered, fancier, and durable vehicle. The same logic – that price and quality run parallel to one another…

The Phia Group has long championed reference-based pricing, otherwise known as “RBP”, as an effective healthcare cost containment mechanism to reduce prices to billed medical services. Whereas under many traditional healthcare reimbursement models, hospitals and other healthcare facilities establish their…