It’s a fact: shopping around for health insurance plans is a challenge — even for the most health-savvy consumer. If you’ve ever read a health insurance plan’s “explanation” of benefits and finished feeling as though nothing was actually explained, you’re not alone. Fortunately, that’s going to change. Last week, HHS unveiled an additional requirement for [...]
Plain Language
Plain Language Comes to Health Insurance Summaries – Finally!
By Christine Parizo | February 14, 2012CommunicateHealth Wins National 2011 ClearMark Award!
By Amy | May 6, 2011Each year, the Center for Plain Language acknowledges the hard work it takes to create easy-to-understand materials and Web sites. This year, our work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Environmental Health on Lead Poisoning: Words to Know from A to Z [select pages (PDF)] was awarded the [...]
Universal Precautions: Prescription Label Changes
By Amy | January 21, 2011Prescription labels can be a major source of confusion for the 48% of Americans taking prescription medications every month. That’s why we would like to applaud the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) for proposing new standards for all prescription labels in the U.S. The standards draw heavily from best practices in health literacy and user-centered design. Currently, [...]
Plain Writing – required by law!
By Sarah | September 30, 2010On Monday, September 27th, the US Senate took an important step toward ensuring that government publications, forms, and documents are written in a way that everyone can understand by passing the Plain Writing Act of 2010. The Plain Writing Act requires the federal government to write new publications, forms, and publicly distributed documents in a [...]
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