The colonoscopy: it may be the most dreaded screening test out there, and it’s the next procedure we’re covering as part of PriceCheck.
On PriceCheck, we’re crowdsourcing prices of common health tests and procedures. KQED, along with our colleagues at KPCC in LA, and ClearHealthCosts.com, a health cost transparency start up in New York, are shining a light on health care costs by asking you –members of our community — to share what you’ve paid for various health care procedures.
We turned to crowdsourcing because health care prices are wildly variable and opaque. It sometimes stuns people to find out there is no central database of prices. Gag clauses in contracts between doctors and insurers forbid both parties to disclose prices.
On PriceCheck, we’re crowdsourcing prices of common health tests and procedures. KQED, along with our colleagues at KPCC in LA, and ClearHealthCosts.com, a health cost transparency start up in New York, are shining a light on health care costs by asking you –members of our community — to share what you’ve paid for various health care procedures.
We turned to crowdsourcing because health care prices are wildly variable and opaque. It sometimes stuns people to find out there is no central database of prices. Gag clauses in contracts between doctors and insurers forbid both parties to disclose prices.
