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Cost Plus Wellness is an open-source direct-contracting platform backed by Mark Cuban that connects self-funded employers with healthcare providers through publicly published contracts. Contracts include full pricing and terms, allowing employers to browse and download them for use with providers, while healthcare entities can publish their own contract templates and rates.
The platform is designed to remove intermediaries, spread pricing, shared-savings fees, hidden administrative fees, patient collections, and prior authorization. Providers are to receive the full negotiated rate, and employers and third-party administrators are required to pay within 30 days of receiving a claim. Cost Plus Wellness reviews submissions and performs basic verification before publishing them; it describes itself as an open-source project rather than a business.
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A site where the direct contracts Mark Cuban negotiates with hospitals and providers are published as an open-source library, so any employer can use them and any provider can post contracts or use them as templates in negotiations. Part of his direct-contracting model that bypasses insurers, with trusted doctors, no pre-auths or denials, and on-time payment.
1 in the library.