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You’d Better Shop Around

by Anna on November 16, 2010 · 0 comments

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People comparison shop for all kinds of things, yet because of an opaque health care system where prices are not known to consumers and are furthermore complicated by the dance between providers and health insurance companies, we tend to just accept what the doctor ordered. And sometimes, that’s multiple tests and procedures you don’t necessarily [...]

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Today, PriceDoc.com was mentioned on ABC’s, Good Morning America!

It opens saying, “According to the National Coalition on Health Care American families spent an average of 6 thousand dollars out of pocket on health insurance and other medical costs in 2009 and that’s a number expected to rise to 9 thousand dollars by 2012.”

Then Mellody Hobson, in her Personal Finance Column, mentions PriceDoc.com while discussing these topics – and maintaining health care quality…

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Do you know what is becoming the most important work done in the hospital? Many would believe medicine, but many hospitals are finding that paperwork takes up the most time. Paperwork takes up as much as a third of a physicians workday, which often leads to a deteriorating professional morale. Discussed by Dr. Pauline Chen from the New York Times, administrative responsibilities are keeping doctors from their primary role of treating patients.

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Solana Beach, Calif., March 9, 2010– PriceDoc, a free, transparent health care pricing service, today announced that patients have performed over one million searches for medical and dental procedures listed on the Web site. PriceDoc.com empowers health care consumers to negotiate the cash price of quality medical procedures. Both patients and providers are integrating transparent pricing into their health care exchange, as over 2,500 providers from across the country have become PriceDoc.com subscribers and posted more than 50,000 medical and dental procedures available for cash prices.

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Solana Beach, Calif., February 2, 2010 – PriceDoc, a free, transparent healthcare pricing service and Web site, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued PriceDoc patent #7,657,479 for its online system of healthcare service acquisition and negotiation, making PriceDoc.com the only online site where patients can “make an offer” for healthcare services with verified providers.

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Clark made this video a while ago, but we did not find it until it aired on HLN where it was seen by almost a million people! Did you see it on TV? If not, here’s another look…

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