Webinar Commemorates 15 Years of Advancing
Health Literacy and Cost Transparency
NEW
YORK, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On
April 17, FAIR Health hosted a
webinar entitled "Fifteen Years of Advancing Health Literacy and
Cost Transparency: A Free Webinar on FAIR Health's Award-Winning
Consumer Resources." This webinar offered a comprehensive review of
FAIR Health's free, national, award-winning resources that
demystify health insurance information and help consumers plan for
their healthcare costs and navigate the healthcare system. The
slide deck from the webinar presentation can be found here.
Fifteen years ago, FAIR Health was established to bring
transparency and integrity to healthcare costs and health insurance
information for all participants in the healthcare system. Equipped
with an unparalleled database of over 46 billion privately billed
healthcare claim records and a separate collection of over 47
billion Medicare Parts A, B and D claim records, FAIR Health
furthers its mission by making available free, consumer-friendly
tools and resources on a dedicated website, FAIR Health Consumer,
and a mobile app, FH® Consumer Classroom.
In addition to its consumer-oriented resources, FAIR Health
fulfills its nonprofit mission through the issuance of white
papers, data briefs and interactive "trackers" illuminating various
corners of the healthcare system; the ongoing production of a broad
suite of benchmark products separately featuring in-network
negotiated amounts and billed charges; and insightful custom
analytics for the full spectrum of healthcare stakeholders.
FAIR Health Consumer
FAIR Health's award-winning consumer website, available in
English (fairhealthconsumer.org) and Spanish
(fairhealthconsumidor.org), enables thousands of insured and
uninsured patients per week to estimate and plan for their
healthcare expenditures and offers a rich educational platform on
the fundamentals of health insurance.
The following tools and resources are featured on the consumer
website:
- FH® Medical Cost Estimator and FH®
Dental Cost Estimator. These tools allow consumers to estimate
in-network and out-of-network costs for medical and dental care by
procedure and geographic location. Using the geo-compare feature,
consumers can explore cost estimates in adjacent areas. They can
also customize their cost estimates for out-of-network services
based on the specifics of their plan's design.
- Body Part Procedure Locator. This tool uses a map of the human
body to help consumers identify medical procedures and the
estimated costs for those procedures in consumers' geographical
locations. The Body Part Procedure Locator is intuitive, requiring
only a knowledge of the part of the body that is affected. The
consumer does not need advance knowledge of the relevant procedure
code; instead, the tool guides the consumer from the affected body
part to the most frequently searched codes.
- FH® Total Treatment Cost. To educate consumers about
bundled payment models, the FH Total Treatment Cost tool provides
estimates of the typical costs for all components of care for
certain chronic conditions (like asthma), event-based procedures
(like a knee replacement) and acute conditions (such as pregnancy
or COVID-19). The tool provides both in-network and out-of-network,
geographic-specific costs.
- Shoppable Services Tool. This easy-to-use tool allows consumers
to browse through more than 300 shoppable services, or search for a
specific service, using the same procedure codes that hospitals and
healthcare providers use to bill for services. The tool provides
both in-network and out-of-network, geographic-specific costs,
along with the costs for other related services (e.g.,
anesthesia).
- Shared Decision-Making Feature. This section provides an
introduction to shared decision making—the patient-clinician
discussion regarding treatment options—as well as several decision
aids that combine clinical and cost information for palliative
care-related scenarios and conditions especially pertinent to
people of color and older adults.
- Older Adults Feature. Designed to empower a diverse audience of
older adults and their caregivers, the Older Adults section offers
actionable tools, content and resources intended to help older
patients make informed healthcare decisions. Resources include
decision aids and total treatment cost scenarios for serious health
conditions that affect older adults, as well as checklists and
educational content on topics such as financial health
literacy.
- FH® Insurance Basics. FH Insurance Basics is an
original series of articles and videos that explain how health
coverage works in consumer-friendly language. Making complex topics
understandable, this educational curriculum helps consumers to
decide which plan option is right for them, find explanations of
terms and concepts relevant to their health plans, understand their
medical bills, evaluate the differences among settings for care and
more.
- Resource Links, Glossary and Healthcare Quality Toolkit.
Additional consumer website features include links to external
resources that assist consumers with their health and health
insurance; a glossary of commonly used medical, dental and health
insurance terms; and a healthcare quality toolkit that helps
consumers compare the quality of healthcare providers.
FH Consumer Classroom
FH Consumer Classroom is a free mobile app that offers FAIR
Health's consumer content in a concise, user-friendly format. The
app, available in English and Spanish on the
Apple App
Store and Google Play, enables users to learn
about health insurance and the healthcare system through articles,
videos, a glossary, and other key resources .
FAIR Health's consumer resources have been recognized by scores
of media outlets nationwide and have received honors from
healthcare sector and government leaders as critical and actionable
tools for consumer engagement and protection.
This information, and more, can be found in the webinar
presentation. To view the slides presented during the webinar,
click here.
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About FAIR Health
FAIR Health is a national,
independent nonprofit organization that qualifies as a public
charity under section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code. It is
dedicated to bringing transparency to healthcare costs and health
insurance information through data products, consumer resources and
health systems research support. FAIR Health possesses the nation's
largest collection of private healthcare claims data, which
includes over 46 billion claim records and is growing at a rate of
over 3 billion claim records a year. FAIR Health licenses its
privately billed data and data products—including benchmark
modules, data visualizations, custom analytics and market
indices—to commercial insurers and self-insurers, employers,
providers, hospitals and healthcare systems, government agencies,
researchers and others. Certified by the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) as a national Qualified Entity, FAIR Health
also receives data representing the experience of all individuals
enrolled in traditional Medicare Parts A, B and D, which accounts
for a separate collection of over 47 billion claim records; FAIR
Health includes among the private claims data in its database, data
on Medicare Advantage enrollees. FAIR Health can produce insightful
analytic reports and data products based on combined Medicare and
commercial claims data for government, providers, payors and other
authorized users. FAIR Health's systems for processing and storing
protected health information have earned HITRUST CSF certification
and achieved AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 compliance by meeting the rigorous
data security requirements of these standards. As a testament to
the reliability and objectivity of FAIR Health data, the data have
been incorporated in statutes and regulations around the country
and designated as the official, neutral data source for a variety
of state health programs, including workers' compensation and
personal injury protection (PIP) programs. FAIR Health data serve
as an official reference point in support of certain state balance
billing laws that protect consumers against bills for surprise
out-of-network and emergency services. FAIR Health also uses its
database to power a free consumer website available in English and
Spanish, which enables consumers to estimate and plan for their
healthcare expenditures and offers a rich educational platform on
health insurance. An English/Spanish mobile app offers the same
educational platform in a concise format and links to the cost
estimation tools. The website has been honored by the White House
Summit on Smart Disclosure, the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), URAC, the eHealthcare Leadership Awards, appPicker,
Employee Benefit News and Kiplinger's Personal
Finance. For more information on FAIR Health, visit
fairhealth.org.
Contact:
Rachel
Kent
Executive Director of Communications and Marketing
FAIR Health
646-396-0795
rkent@fairhealth.org
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