Finding Health Care Prices Online-How Difficult Is It to Be an Informed Health-Care Consumer?

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Mar 1;178(3):423-424. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.6841.

Authors

Allison Kratka¹, Charlene A Wong^{1

2

3}, Riley Herrmann⁴, Kathryn Hong⁴, Aleena Karediya⁴, Iris Yang⁴, Peter A Ubel^{1

2

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
² Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
³ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
⁴ Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
⁶ Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

Abstract

This study examines the availability of pricing information for 4 nonemergency medical interventions using 2 online search engines in 8 US cities.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Choice Behavior
Commerce / economics*
Consumer Behavior / economics*
Costs and Cost Analysis
Economics, Medical / statistics & numerical data*
Health Services Needs and Demand / economics*
Health Services Needs and Demand / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Information Seeking Behavior
United States

Grants and funding

K23 HL141689/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States