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The Salt Lake Tribune
Understanding health care costs — and why knowing what something costs isn’t enough
4 minutes Posted Jun 12, 2023 at 12:00 pm.
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Utah is one of 18 states in the nation with an established all-payer claim database (ABCD). Essentially, every bill sent to a health care insurer is logged into one massive database, which then researchers can work with to answer all sorts of healthcare questions: which procedures are being done most often, with medications are given and when, how much each procedure costs, which hospitals and doctors are most and least expensive, and so on.
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