Transparency

Relevant examples:

Health Services, led by Secretary Michael Leavitt, embrace transparency as a fundamental driver of health care innovation and reform
Consumer Health Ratings - shows national efforts to have comparative prescription pricing information
- MyFloridaRX - Florida Attorney General making comparative prescription pricing tool
- New York Rx - New York Attorney General making comparative prescription pricing tool
Hospital Comparison tools
- The Health Care Facts - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and Louisiana making comparative hospital metric information available in consumer nutritional label form
- Texas Price Point - consumer site created by the Texas Hospital Association in order to provide basic demographic, quality and charge information on Texas hospitals
California Hospital Comparisons - California Health Foundation providing comparative quality rankings for over 200 California Hospitals on 50 different quality and performance metrics
Humana's new transparency tool which provides comparative pricing information -
NY Health Care Report - Comparisons of cost and quality for all HMOs and hospitals in New York