Our Mission
Our mission is to ensure complete transparency in healthcare billing and pricing, enabling a fair and competitive system that works for all Americans.
Price transparency won’t fix everything that is wrong with the American healthcare system, but nothing can be fixed without it.
Our Goal
Our goal is to make sure price transparency is required of ALL contributors to the healthcare system. When price transparency is required for doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies, and every other participant in the American healthcare system, we will have the foundation of a functional healthcare market that we can trust. Trust that empowers consumers is the cornerstone of a healthy marketplace which is competitive, fair, and motivates constant improvement.
Once the shroud of secrecy in healthcare pricing is removed, policymakers (i.e., politicians and regulators) will be able to see where we over-diagnose, overtreat, and overpay, as well as where we may not be investing enough to achieve the outcomes we deserve.
Helping Patients
Our goal is to make sure price transparency is required of ALL contributors to the healthcare system. When price transparency is required for doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, insurance companies, and every other participant in the American healthcare system, we will have the foundation of a functional healthcare market that we can trust. Trust that empowers consumers is the cornerstone of a healthy marketplace which is competitive, fair, and motivates constant improvement.
Once the shroud of secrecy in healthcare pricing is removed, policymakers (i.e., politicians and regulators) will be able to see where we over-diagnose, overtreat, and overpay, as well as where we may not be investing enough to achieve the outcomes we deserve.
Why Price Transparency?
Price transparency is essential to a functioning market. The U.S. healthcare system cannot operate as a healthy market without it. Price transparency ensures a basic economic principle is at work: Price discovery.
Price discovery means that we can learn the price we will pay before choosing to move forward with a transaction. Often confused with cost estimation, price discovery does not suggest that we know how much money we will spend in advance. Just as we order food in a restaurant without knowing what our check will be at the end of the meal, price discovery simply implies that we must be informed of the price of everything that we might purchase.