Overview:
The new analysis, based on interviews with a wide range of health care stakeholders and experts, shows that consumer use of HealthCost has remained modest and that the program did not fulfill a primary goal of directly encouraging consumer price-shopping. However, the research found a wide belief within the state’s health care and policy communities that HealthCost was important in highlighting wide gaps in provider prices — particularly between hospital outpatient departments and freestanding facilities, but also among different hospitals.
Author(s):
Ha Tu, Rebecca Gourevitch
Contacts:
Ha Tu, Senior Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research
Rebecca Gourevitch, Research Assistant at Mathematica Policy Research
Citation:
Gourevitch, R., and Tu, H., Moving Markets: Lessons from New Hampshire's Health Care Price Transparency Experiment, April 2014.
