MedicareCompareUSA announced today that it has partnered with Providence Health in South Carolina to launch a toll-free helpline that will make it easier for local Medicare beneficiaries to find a health plan that best meets their personal needs and preferences. Providence Health is part of LifePoint Health, one of the nation’s leading healthcare companies with 72 hospital campuses in 22 states and more than $6 billion in revenue.

MedicareCompareUSA announced today that it has entered into an agreement with CHI Health to establish a toll-free helpline that will assist Medicare beneficiaries in Nebraska and southwest Iowa in choosing a health plan that best meets their personal needs and preferences.

Most hospitals today sink or swim financially based, in great part, on their ability to attract and retain desirable market share.

This can best be achieved by helping patients choose a health plan with which the hospital has favorable reimbursement. But while that answer is clear, the question remains of “how best to do this?”

MedicareCompareUSA announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the CHI Texas Division to establish a toll-free helpline that will assist Medicare beneficiaries in choosing a health plan that best meets their personal needs and preferences.

As providers get caught between nagging government regulations, shrinking reimbursement from insurers, and new competition from entrepreneurial startups, the struggle for desirable market share has never been greater. In this carnival of change, hospital and physician leaders have four choices. They can waste time trying to retrace the genesis and evolution that has created this battlefield, they can grind their teeth in frustration, they can fiddle around the fringes and hope for the best, or they can flex their own muscles to control their own destiny.