{"id":20017,"date":"2022-07-27T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20017"},"modified":"2022-07-27T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:25:04","slug":"health-insurance-price-data-its-out-there-but-its-not-for-the-faint-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20017","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Price Data: It\u2019s Out There, but It\u2019s Not for the Faint of Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data wonks with mighty computers are overjoyed. Ordinary consumers, not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the reaction about three weeks into a data dump of enormous proportions. Health insurers are posting their negotiated rates for just about every type of medical service they cover across all providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But so much data is flowing in from insurers \u2014 tens of thousands of colossal digital files from a single insurer is not unusual \u2014 that it could still be weeks before data firms put it into usable forms for its intended targets: employers, researchers, and even patients. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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