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Last week, Executive Director Chris Skisak had the opportunity to attend the US-RX Care meetings in Orlando. The meetings included a "fireside chat" with @mcuban and Renzo Luzzatti.

"If we want to have an honest conversation about affordability, we need to get far tougher when it comes to hospital monopolies." realclearhealth.com/articles/2026/… #healthcare #texas

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In December we hosted the 2025 HBCH Winter Forum where we discussed building a transparent & cost-effective drug spend strategy through expert panels, employer case studies and tools & resources. Upcoming events ➡️ coalition.houstonbch.org/calendar?_gl=1… Highlights ➡️ vimeo.com/1161108978?sha…

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Last week, Executive Director @ChrisSkisak attended the Advanced Primary Care Summit hosted by Aligned Marketplace in Austin. The event was attended by 85 employers and APC partners changing healthcare and included valuable discussions related to advanced primary care & more!

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We're thrilled to welcome @rxbenefits as one of the newest HBCH Associate Members! RxBenefits is a client-aligned pharmacy benefits optimizer (PBO) who's flat-fee model ensures focus on client success, offering optimized contracting & independent clinical management.

That’s why the rise in health spending above the rate of inflation over the past decade has depressed wages by nearly 10%. nytimes.com/2025/12/10/opi… health insurance healthcare health spending

Decades’ worth of research shows that, even though employers pay most of workers’ premiums, those costs are passed on to workers in the form of lower wages and fewer jobs.

"If we want to have an honest conversation about affordability, we need to get far tougher when it comes to hospital monopolies." #txlege #healthcare realclearhealth.com/articles/2026/…

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.@EliLillyandCo, .@novonordisk test direct-to-employer approach that could cut out #PBMs and lower costs healthcaredive.com/news/lilly-nov… via @healthcaredive #Employers #DrugPrices

“Our research shows that by using available price transparency data, employers can select insurers who have negotiated the lowest prices for the types of care their employees commonly use at the hospitals they prefer." news.rice.edu/news/2025/hous…

Want to see something CRAZY? This is how much more expensive health care has been getting than...basically everything. This is UNREASONABLE and UNSUSTAINABLE. #txlege

HBCH recently released an online resource that provides a dashboard view for 53 hospitals across the greater Houston metropolitan area with report card grades given for safety, quality, and financial metrics. houstonbch.org/leapfrog/?utm_… #patientsafety #ptsafety #healthcare

"We have slightly fewer doctors' visits and slightly shorter hospital stays than people in similarly large and wealthy countries do. But we are just paying higher prices for that care that we get." It's the prices. #txlege npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-…

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"If we’re serious about tackling general inflation, we need to stop treating healthcare as a policy silo and start seeing it for what it truly is: the largest and most durable source of inflation in the U.S. economy." forbes.com/councils/forbe… #txlege

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