Today’s blog is a bit different (and brief). We present a lot of service-specific cost and quality data on our Healthy Hive NH site. We are also able to highlight other topics…
Category: <span>Price Transparency in Health Care</span>
When Robert Pirsig’s classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values was finally published in 1974 it became a cultural icon in short time. What most…
They say visuals are the best way to convey a message. we think we have some pretty awesome content, but to be honest, there has been pretty low interest in…
Good read here from the Pioneer Institute discussing how Massachusetts’ health cost transparency initiatives are seemingly more form than substance. It’s neighbor to the north, New Hampshire, has been gaining…
We often take for granted Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and forget it is only in existence because the Department of Defense has the scale and human capital to have…
Early Innings HealthyHive’s (www.healthyhive.com) open data project is making modest in-roads in proving how public-private initiatives can come together to drive education and transparency for consumers looking to manage rising…
We have been looking at the 2012 Inpatient cost data from Medicare. It covers the most frequent 100 inpatient services. We were going to publish the Average out-of-pocket cost along…
Consumers under Original Medicare can save money by becoming more engaged in their healthcare. Our mission is to bring publicly available data (also known as “open data”) to the masses…
During 2012 one biopsy in particular was conducted quite a few times (221,798 to be exact). Consumers enrolled in Original Medicare paid $38.32 on average in out-of-pocket per procedure*. The…
@GlobeLizK – this is great legislation, but consumers need to do their part by engaging. We will be opening the blog to learn about consumer experiences inquiring about cost estimates very…