Virgin Pulse Launches Best-In-Class Healthcare Transparency Tool Powered by Healthcare Bluebook
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Point of fact: one in five Americans will receive a surprise medical bill.1 “By making Healthcare Bluebook available from the Virgin Pulse platform, our clients and members can access information that will help them compare cost and quality of services and providers,” said Osborne. Cost transparency and the ability to seek and access quality care easily and confidently are absolutely critical to an individual’s health and wellbeing.” Available mid-2020, Virgin Pulse’s deep integration of Healthcare Bluebook will allow employees and health plan consumers to better navigate the healthcare marketplace and more efficiently and effectively shop for a physician or medical procedure on the basis of cost and quality at a time when consumers struggle for that information. Point of fact: a recent nationwide poll found that two-thirds of workers with job-based coverage said finding the cost of a medical treatment or procedure was somewhat or very difficult .2 “This exclusive partnership with Virgin Pulse furthers our mission to protect patients by exposing the truth of healthcare cost and quality variation,” says Jeff Rice, founder and chief executive officer of Healthcare Bluebook. “Our Healthcare Bluebook solution through Virgin Pulse will help its members fully understand the costs associated with a medical procedure and steer them to the highest-quality, lowest-cost physician or facility in their area, turning them into smarter healthcare consumers.” This partnership, which follows the company’s recent , announcements last week, is another step in Virgin Pulse’s strategy. With industry-leading objective price and quality data and claims-driven ROI reporting, Bluebook provides users with everything they need to compare facilities, save money, and find high-quality care.
