AboutHealthTransparency.org is a nonprofit website that publishes resources and news about health care price transparency. In addition to tracking health care price transparency since 1999, the site includes a directory of health care provider report cards organized by U.S. state and by country.
The Healthcare Payment Glossary. This glossary from The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform could be useful for journalists writing about payment reform or any of the various methods insurers use to pay hospitals, physicians and other providers. The glossary explains the difference between “global payment” and “global budget” and defines such common terms as “population-based payment” and “third-party administrator.”
FAIR Health is an independent nonprofit organization that collects data for and manages what says is the nation’s largest database of privately billed health insurance claims. FAIR Health also has Medicare parts A, B and D claims data from 2013 to the present.
Healthcare BlueBook says it uses price and quality data and information from health care claims to protect consumers and employers from overpriced, low-quality health. Also, it has an online health care shopping tool that employees working for more than 5,000 employers use when shopping for health care services.