Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Formation of the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI)

Trying to gain an understanding of why HC costs have increased so much has been hampered by lack of access to claims data for the general population. But today Aetna, United Health Care, Kaiser and Humana announced that they will share their claims data with the HCCI to help better understand the factors behind HC cost increases. To say this is great news is an understatement! Here is a link to HCCI's website:

http://healthcostinstitute.org/

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