title: Advance estimates: 4 approaches to price transparency in health care.
abstract: Geisinger Health System has developed a preservice program, called "MyVisit," that serves all the health system's inpatients. Texas Health Resources has developed a patient coinsurance estimator that covers all of the health system's payers and procedures. The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati can provide each patient with an "advance explanation of benefits" for about 200 of its most common procedures. A large southeastern health system has developed a central pricing office to formalize the process of providing patients with preservice estimates.
authors.affiliation: Rappuhn Consulting, Nashville, Tenn., USA. terryrappuhn@bellsouth.net
authors.forename: Terry Allison
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Rappuhn
mesh_terms: D005382:Financing, Personal; D017722:Hospital Charges; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D010358:Patient Participation; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D014481:United States