CalPERS Launches Health Care Cost, Quality Comparison Tool
Last week, CalPERS launched a new online tool that allows members to access and compare information about health care costs and quality, the Sacramento Business Journal reports.
Details of Tool
The tool was developed by Castlight Health in San Francisco (Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 8/8).
Members of CalPERS' preferred provider organization can use the tool to view and compare health care entities by:
- Convenience;
- Copayments;
- Deductibles;
- Facility quality;
- Patient satisfaction; and
- Physician quality.
The database is accessible through:
- A mobile application;
- A website; and
- Live telephone support (California Healthline, 5/21).
Ann Boynton, deputy executive officer of CalPERS' Benefit Programs Policy and Planning branch, in a release announcing the tool said, "We believe the ability to research costs, quality, satisfaction and convenience will be invaluable to our members ... and give them confidence in their health-care decisions" (Sacramento Business Journal, 8/8).
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