Beyond the Bill: Comparing Price and Quality at Houston Area Hospitals
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Key Findings
- Initial price files released by BCBSTX and Aetna reveal wide variation in prices across hospitals in Harris County. There are notable differences across the four major health care systems in the Houston area.
- For instance, Houston Methodist in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) has average negotiated prices for a hospital stay of $20,071, but Houston Methodist could only negotiate an average price of $18,131 with BCBSTX for these same diagnoses when treated at its Clear Lake facility.
- These results suggest that employers can achieve notable savings in health care spending if they can steer employees toward lower priced providers, without sacrificing quality.
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