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description: Healthcare transparency. It's been a hot topic for years, and is more important now than ever. But how do we make healthcare truly shoppable?
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# Infographic: Healthcare Transparency

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Healthcare transparency. It's been a hot topic for years, but is more important now than ever. With medical costs on the rise, employers looking for ways to cut healthcare expenses, and more consumers on high-deductible plans, improving healthcare transparency is an important part of raising both the quality and efficiency of our healthcare system.

Healthcare transparency benefits everyone. Employers save on healthcare costs and can better inform and engage their employees. Patients can make decisions about care in a thoughtful way and budget for their healthcare expenses. Doctors are then more likely to get paid, and gain recognition for high-value care.

And there's this: as a country, better [healthcare transparency could save us billions](http://www.castlighthealth.com/resources/healthcare-transparency/) in avoidable healthcare costs.

But the road to healthcare transparency has been more of an uphill climb. Last year, a mere 5 states received passing grades on the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute's [Price Transparency Report Card](http://www.hci3.org/content/report-card-state-price-transparency-laws-2014). The [price range](http://http://www.uhc.com/news-room/2014-news-release-archive/cost-estimator-leads-to-quality-physicians) in comparable healthcare services is still frighteningly wide. Only now are key players in the industry beginning to develop transparency tools to turn patients into informed healthcare consumers.

So how do we make healthcare shoppable? More legislators, insurers, and healthcare organizations need to get involved, and provide practical tools for employers and consumers. Both [UnitedHealthcare](http://www.uhc.com/employer/programs-tools/for-employees/health4me/new-tools-helping-consumers) and [CastlightHealth](http://www.castlighthealth.com/solutions/) have released online pricing tools that help consumers cut medical costs. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina promises to follow in their footsteps, with an [online healthcare pricing](http://kaiserhealthnews.org/news/blue-cross-north-carolinas-price-tool-could-shake-up-medical-industry/) tool for over 80% of elective, non-emergency procedures.

[GoodRx](http://www.goodrx.com/), [Healthcare Bluebook](https://healthcarebluebook.com/), [Health in Reach](https://www.healthinreach.com/), and [HealthSparq](http://www.healthsparq.com/) are also leading the healthcare transparency movement by giving the consumer pricing comparisons among providers and retailers.  They understand the power of turning patients into informed healthcare consumers. Let's hope key players in the industry follow suit soon.

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 Published: February 17, 2015

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