Crowdsourcing healthcare costs: Opportunities and challenges for patient centered price transparency

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• 作者：Zachary F. Meisel^a ; ^b ; ^{zfmamp.wharton@upenn.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Lauren A. Houdek VonHoltz^a ; ^c ; Raina M. Merchant^a ; ^b ; ^c
• 关键词：Crowdsourcing ; Price transparency ; Out-of-pocket cost ; Hospital charge data
• 刊名：Healthcare
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：4
• 期：1
• 页码：3-5
• 全文大小：178 K

文摘

Efforts to improve health care price transparency have garnered significant attention from patients, policy makers, and health insurers. In response to increasing consumer demand, state governments, insurance plans, and health care providers are reporting health care prices. However, such data often do not provide consumers with the most salient information: their own actual out-of-pocket cost for medical care. Although untested, crowdsourcing, a mechanism for the public to help answer complex questions, represents a potential solution to the problem of opaque hospital costs. This article explores, the challenges and potential opportunities for crowdsourcing out-of-pocket costs for healthcare consumers.