February 08th, 2019

When buying common consumer items (sneakers or electronics for example), there's often a 150-200%+ price swing between the lowest clearance price and the highest price available. Same goes with healthcare prices. 

Employers should be educating their employees how to utilize cutting edge online consumerism tools to find the best deal for Rx and elective procedures. If employees get caught with a life threatening emergency and billed an outlier out-of-network rate, they should leverage public pricing data to negotiate down their bill.

https://khn.org/news/transparent-hospital-pricing-exposes-wild-fluctuation-even-within-miles/