>From BusinessInsurance.com
Many health plans provide cost and quality information to plan members in response to employer demand for greater transparency to encourage consumer engagement, a survey has found.
Forty percent of 93 health plans examined by eValue8, a request-for-information tool created by the Washington-based National Business Coalition on Health, make at least some information on the cost of health services available to plan members. Of those, 7% provide practitioner-specific unit cost information, while 3% provide information about how cost-effective providers are in treating particular illnesses.
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