Hispanic consumers in Connecticut later this summer will be able to access a Connecticut-specific mobile app in English and Spanish designed to improve health insurance literacy, consumer engagement in health care, and medical and dental cost transparency.
Released by the independent nonprofit organization Fair Health and funded by a grant from the Connecticut Health Foundation, the free app will enable consumers to estimate the costs of medical and dental procedures received in Connecticut, as well as in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to a news release from Fair Health. The app also will provide educational materials that explain the fundamentals of health coverage, identify specific healthcare issues in the state and include links to state-specific healthcare resources.
FAIR Health is an organization that advances systemwide healthcare cost transparency through consumer resources, data products and health services research support.
The Connecticut app is among several education tools Fair Health announced this week that are designed to make health care and health coverage more understandable to Hispanic consumers.
