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Healthcare Cost Estimators

The 'Health Costs' App Predicts Healthcare Pricing

— July 13, 2016 — Life-Stages
One difficult aspect of America's private healthcare system is that any one patient's healthcare costs for the exact same procedure can vary wildly depending on the region in which the procedure takes place, the insurance company covering it and the actual doctor performing it. The 'Health Costs' app works to remove the guessing from healthcare pricing by analyzing billions of dollars worth of insurance data.

Health Costs is a new addition to the healthcare suite by Amino, a San Francisco-based tech company. While the previous app could find doctors and book appointments, the new Health Costs feature uses an algorithm to make an estimate about the cost of anything from an appointment to a major surgery.

The inability to find cost estimates in healthcare is a potentially serious problem. An uninsured surgery with one doctor can end up costing someone their nest egg, while the same surgery in another state could be significantly less expensive. The Health Costs app crunches big data to save people's financial livelihood when their health falters.
Trend Themes
1. Healthcare Pricing Transparency - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a platform that provides transparent and accurate cost estimates for healthcare procedures across different regions and insurance companies.
2. Data-driven Healthcare Cost Analysis - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create an analytics solution that utilizes big data to analyze healthcare costs and provide accurate estimates for various medical services.
3. Mobile Applications for Healthcare Pricing - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Design a mobile app that uses algorithms and insurance data to predict and compare healthcare costs for different procedures and medical treatments.
Industry Implications
1. Healthcare Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop advanced technologies and software solutions to improve transparency and efficiency in healthcare pricing and cost estimation.
2. Insurance - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Innovate insurance services by integrating accurate cost estimation tools into their offerings, providing customers with better insights and cost-saving options.
3. Big Data Analytics - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Utilize advanced analytics and data science techniques to analyze healthcare cost data and provide valuable insights to healthcare providers, insurers, and policymakers.
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