For three years now, change:healthcare has had the goal to help people save money on their healthcare expenses. We want to help lots of people – as many as possible. We won’t say we’ve found the magic sauce (we’ll leave that to journalists like those at the New York Times, but we will say that we’re seeing magical results.
We wanted to help everyone (boy, were we starry-eyed and naïve). But getting the information was far more challenging than we ever dreamed. We found our best opportunity to help the most people was by working with large groups of employers.
If you want to be the best at what you do, it requires unwavering focus. We hope that you are among the individuals whose employer has taken it upon themselves to provide cost transparency in an effort to help save on healthcare costs.
We’ve decided that going forward, we will focus our efforts full-time towards employers and their employees and will close down the consumer face of our site…the one that you use with your medical bills… effective August 15, 2010.
If you’ve been an active user of MedBillManager and have manually keyed your personal health data in the system, please let us know. We will be more than happy to retrieve this information from the database and return it to you. If you’ve developed a support group via change:healthcare, share email addresses, that will be phased out as well.
If you would like to continue using change:healthcare, you can do so through your employer. Have your Human Resources manager get in touch with us so we can talk about providing our tools and services to your company.
We sincerely have appreciated your use of change:healthcare. We want to do the best job we can helping people deal with the sometimes confusing and overwhelming healthcare system and we believe this path will help us do that.
Sincerely,
Christopher Parks
co-founder and CEO
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