Opinion: Website offers a living laboratory for examining health care prices and quality
Does publishing health care costs and outcomes really help consumers? A new website says "yes."
To make wise decisions about their health, consumers need to know how much their health care costs. That’s the growing consensus from all sides of the political spectrum. But because publishing information about health care costs and quality in the same way it is published for books or appliances is a relatively new paradigm, we haven’t really known how — or even if — this kind of transparent information affects consumer behavior.
My organization, FAIR Health, recently launched a health care price and quality website, . It is powered by our repository of private health care claims data, the nation’s largest. Other price and quality transparency
