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FAIR Health's estimates are based on our collection of 25 BILLION healthcare claims for 10,000+ services in all areas of the U.S.
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Mission FAIR Health’s mission is to help you understand your healthcare costs and health coverage and to bring transparency to healthcare costs and insurance. We are an independent, national nonprofit organization known for providing fair and neutral information to all those we serve, including consumers like you. We are able to provide reliable information about healthcare costs because each year health insurers around the country send us over a billion healthcare bills, which are added to FAIR Health’s database of more than 25 billion claims. We use information from those claims to estimate what providers charge, and what insurers pay, for providing healthcare to patients all across the country. We make this information available to consumers, researchers, businesses and many other users. Back to Top
About Our Data Our cost estimates are based on claims for medical and dental services paid for by private insurance plans, including the country’s largest insurers. Our database includes more than 25 billion private health care claims and 20 billion Medicare claims for 10,000 services in all areas of the United States, dating back to 2002. We receive about 1.7 billion new records each year. These claims represent a large portion of the population— approximately 150 million patients from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. FAIR Health uses this powerful data to create a reliable picture of healthcare costs around the country, and locally. To keep our cost information current, we ask our contributors to send us new records regularly throughout the year, and we update the cost data on this website twice each year. In addition to creating tools for consumers, we share information with doctors, hospitals, health plans, employers, researchers, policy makers and others to help them make informed decisions related to healthcare and its costs. A testament to the fairness and reliability of our data, New York, Connecticut, and many other states have adopted FAIR Health’s cost information as the guidepost in laws protecting consumers, and for many other purposes. Back to Top
Awards and Recognition FAIR Health strives to make sure that our website, mobile apps and other resources help consumers like you find the information you need. We are proud of the recognition that our original consumer site, upon which this new website is based, has received. Consumer rights groups and the healthcare industry have awarded our easy-to-use website, mobile apps and other resources that help consumers find useful and reliable information: 2016 Employee Benefit News Dig/Benefits Technology Innovator Award Strategic Healthcare Communications eHealth Leadership Award for 2016 (the fifth year in a row FAIR Health received this honor) Kiplinger’s Personal Finance 2016 Best List for best Health Care Cost Estimator One of AppPicker’s best healthcare apps of 2014 Cited in the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC’s) 2013 Best Practices in Health Care Consumer Engagement and Protection Included in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), US Department of HHS 2014 QualityTool list on AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange Featured and honored at the 2012 White House Summit on Smart Disclosure as an Innovator in Consumer Transparency. Back to Top
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