A Washington, D.C. nonprofit that has been collecting claims data since early 2012 from health insurers — including Hartford’s Aetna —said it will launch an online tool in early 2015 providing information to consumers on price and quality.
The Health Care Cost Institute’s initiative is similar in some ways to a cost-and-quality data gathering effort launched last year by Connecticut’s public insurance exchange, Access Health CT, but includes multiple states.
HCCI is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization overseen by an independent board of economists, actuaries and others.
HCCI Executive Director David Newman told the Hartford Business Journal in a January interview that his organization has de-identified, HIPPA-compliant data from 2007 onward on approximately 50 million Americans, including Connecticut residents.
HCCI has also been collecting data from United Healthcare, which has Hartford operations, and Humana.
