Monday, August 07, 2006
DoctorPricing.com launched
["DoctorPricing.com Makes Price Transparency Available to Health Care Consumers," Press Release, DoctorPricing.com, 7 August 2006.]
A new service based out of Overland Park allows consumers to comparison shop for physicians by location and by specialty:
As health savings accounts continue to become a preferred option for health care consumers, a great need is being created for transparency in pricing within the health care industry. With over 4 million health care consumers taking charge of their own health care costs via HSA’s, and even more consumers remaining uninsured -- the number of patients who are price sensitive to routine medical procedures is growing exponentially.
In an effort to address the needs of those consumers, a team of health care industry, insurance, and technology professionals have created a solution -- DoctorPricing.com.
“We know that the greatest drawback to the consumer driven health care movement is that consumers have no way to comparison shop for routine health care procedures,” said, William Short, President. “DoctorPricing.com is the final piece of the puzzle when it comes to consumers taking power for their own health care decisions back in to their own hands.”
Doctorpricing.com is a comparison shopping engine that is free to use for health care consumers and providers. With a current database of over 700,000 physicians, doctorpricing.com is already the premier doctor search on the Internet.
[Mary Katherine Stout and Matthew Hisrich, "Seeing Through the Cost of Health Care," The Flint Hills Center, 6 July 2006.
William Short, "HSAs treat ills of health care payment system," The Kansas City Business Journal, 25 March 2005.]
A new service based out of Overland Park allows consumers to comparison shop for physicians by location and by specialty:
As health savings accounts continue to become a preferred option for health care consumers, a great need is being created for transparency in pricing within the health care industry. With over 4 million health care consumers taking charge of their own health care costs via HSA’s, and even more consumers remaining uninsured -- the number of patients who are price sensitive to routine medical procedures is growing exponentially.
In an effort to address the needs of those consumers, a team of health care industry, insurance, and technology professionals have created a solution -- DoctorPricing.com.
“We know that the greatest drawback to the consumer driven health care movement is that consumers have no way to comparison shop for routine health care procedures,” said, William Short, President. “DoctorPricing.com is the final piece of the puzzle when it comes to consumers taking power for their own health care decisions back in to their own hands.”
Doctorpricing.com is a comparison shopping engine that is free to use for health care consumers and providers. With a current database of over 700,000 physicians, doctorpricing.com is already the premier doctor search on the Internet.
[Mary Katherine Stout and Matthew Hisrich, "Seeing Through the Cost of Health Care," The Flint Hills Center, 6 July 2006.
William Short, "HSAs treat ills of health care payment system," The Kansas City Business Journal, 25 March 2005.]
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