Health cost, quality tool offers data to consumers

Elizabeth Mansfield

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Title:

Health cost, quality tool offers data to consumers

Creator:

Elizabeth Mansfield

Date:

7/19/2006

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From BusinessInsurance.com

Many health plans provide cost and quality information to plan members in response to employer demand for greater transparency to encourage consumer engagement, a survey has found.
 Forty percent of 93 health plans examined by eValue8, a request-for-information tool created by the Washington-based National Business Coalition on Health, make at least some information on the cost of health services available to plan members. Of those, 7% provide practitioner-specific unit cost information, while 3% provide information about how cost-effective providers are in treating particular illnesses.

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Citation

Elizabeth Mansfield, “Health cost, quality tool offers data to consumers,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/226899.