All doctors should understand how the decisions they make impact what patients pay.

The Model

Our solution couples a creative user-interface with decision-support tools to deflate medical bills. In partnership with providers, we are developing a delivery mechanism that is compatible with physician workflow and healthcare delivery business models. In the near future, Costs of Care will pilot this system in a Boston emergency medicine department and measure our impact on medical decision-making.

By measuring our impact on medical decision-making we will generate new knowledge on how cost-awareness and cost-sensitivity may be leveraged to prevent personal bankruptcies caused by medical bills, and to curb cost-growth in the healthcare sector.


 

Medical bills are now the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States (2005 Harvard study).


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