Massachusetts moves toward transparency on health care costs
The California Health Care Foundation's ihealthbeat online newsletter
today reported that Massachusetts plans to post payment data on
hospitals online, based on a recent Boston Globe article.
Specifically, each hospital will be required to post average payments
made by each insurer for certain procedures, the idea being to allow
consumers to comparison-shop for hospitals on the basis of costs.
Hospitals will also post quality information on these procedures, but
the specific procedures have not yet been decided upon.
New Hampshire has posted payment data, but not quality data, on a
range of types of hospitalizations, some of which may be more feasible
than others for comparison shopping.
posted by Emily DeVoto, Ph.D., @ 9/24/2007 02:45:00 PM
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