Understanding health care costs — and why knowing what something costs isn’t enough

12/06/2023 4 min
Understanding health care costs — and why knowing what something costs isn’t enough

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Utah is one of 18 states in the nation with an established all-payer claim database (ABCD). Essentially, every bill sent to a health care insurer is logged into one massive database, which then researchers can work with to answer all sorts of healthcare questions: which procedures are being done most often, with medications are given and when, how much each procedure costs, which hospitals and doctors are most and least expensive, and so on.

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https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/06/10/andy-larsen-understanding-health

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