price transparency

The startup also announced a new product called Clear Contracts that aims to improve the direct contracting process.

The startup's app prices care using cash rates, while letting its members choose their preferred care by comparing the costs of their local providers.

The startup provides users with price transparency tools and a Visa card for healthcare payments at cash rates.

The Series A round will help the Salt Lake City startup solidify its role as an end-to-end patient-billing suite.

A healthcare and technology survey found that 80 percent of respondents would be more likely to visit a doctor or seek treatment if they could see out-of-pocket cost on their smartphone. 

Scottsdale, Arizona-based HealthiestYou, which offers a health app through employers, raised $30 million from Frontier Capital.

athenahealth Director of Corporate Strategy Emily Tyson The healthcare system has been changing steadily since the inception of digital health, but at the MassTLC Healthcare Conference in Boston this week, panelists pointed to the changes in healthcare billing and the shift away from the traditional doctor's office culture as the factors that have opened up the most opportunities for new companies in the space.

Medigo, a Berlin-based medical travel startup, has raised $6.

Physician rating platform Vitals has acquired price transparency service Compass Healthcare Advisers.

In the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from Castlight Health have published what they believe is the first study linking price transparency to cost savings.