The WSJ’s Health Blog has an interesting post about how patients doing comparison shopping for healthcare services has begun to add some transparency (and drive prices down!), to the healthcare services market in Minnesota. That kind of shopping may actually be driving more change than you might expect. Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota cut [...]
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How Many Inquisitive Patients Make Transparency Reality?
October 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets
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Interview with Mona Lori, Principle, OutOfPocket.com
August 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Healthcare Markets, Interviews
In the healthcare services market change comes slowly. An incredible amount of innovative thinking, and technical blood, sweat and tears, have been put into improving our healthcare experience over the past two decades, yet in many ways very little has changed. Still, after all these years, getting accurate prices for basic procedures is like climbing [...]
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