Crowdsourcing healthcare costs: Opportunities and challenges for patient centered price transparency

Healthcare

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 3-5

  Meisel, Zachary F ^a,b   VonHoltz, Lauren A Houdek ^a,c   Merchant, Raina M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Hospital charge data; Out of pocket cost; Price transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CROWDSOURCING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COST; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL COST; UNITED STATES;

COMMERCE; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROWDSOURCING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DRUG COSTS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84960811722     PISSN: 22130764     EISSN: 22130772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2015.06.004     Document Type: Article

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