Case is quite a limitation that you cant get the full picture of what the physician is doing. In doing. In the commercial, private sector we might find a physician expending a great deal of resources in the office, but if you look at total cost of care they are actually quite efficient. The reason is, you reason is, you wont see that without the ability to integrate a combined data source. The healthcare cost, that is why we thought it was so important to contribute data as a multiplayer effort to bring transparency to the private sector market. And that is an interesting example and a couple of levels. Levels. It originally started as an effort to be a tracker and private sector cost trend data and utilization data. As was mentioned, once they got together in pairs started putting the data and they said, we could actually use this for transparency purposes, start to look at quality data. As some of you may know, that is an effort that has been announced and will be deployed. To sum up
Well, this is not a medicare ise because a medicare physician, i guess their very limited and cop strained about what constrained about what they can charge, so i guess its more of a question about private insurance. You want to talk that, lou . Yeah. The question reflects, again, the desire to have greater and Greater Transparency in all aspects of health care, including what providers charge. Two things. First, even though theres no national requirement, i know at least in massachusetts if theres anyone here from massachusetts, there is a new law that requires exactly what you suggest, which is the posting of prices. So thatll be an interesting experiment to see what impact that has. There may be other states, im just not aware of it. Well hear from the Consumer Panel after us, i think what Consumers Want to know is our experience has been what Consumers Want to know is not what the provider charges so much as what do i have to pay, which then relates to what is the charge in relatio
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