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Tennessee posts medical procedure prices online
Quality Improvement Monitor, April 27, 2007
The Tennessee Hospital Association this week started posting on the Web how much medical procedures cost, the Tennessean reported
The site, Tennessee Hospitals Inform, or tnhospitalsinform.com, will use prices from hospitals' most recent annual reports to the state to lists average prices for common procedures at most of the state's 136 acute-care hospitals.
"One of the big things [that prompted the association to launch its site] was the criticism hospitals have received as far as transparency, as far as their billing system," Craig Becker, the hospital association's president, told the newspaper.
For more information, go here http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070423/BUSINESS01/704230330/1003
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