Now you can have confidence in the value of your healthcare choices
EMPOWER EMPLOYEES TO MAKE INFORMED, HIGH-VALUE HEALTHCARE CHOICES
An Innovative, Simple Way to Search for Care
Where your employees receive care influences the price you pay, and many providers perform procedures at several locations and may even refer their patients to services at different facilities. Healthcare is already complex and can be further complicated by this process because patients don’t always know the hidden costs of their care.
This is Where Healthcare Bluebook Comes In
Our easy-to-use solution will help your employees navigate to the best provider and facility so they receive the highest quality care while saving money. Let’s take a look at how.
Search for Care
Employees can search by physician, facility, or procedure to compare information and find the best care for their needs.
Quality Rankings Display
Our green-yellow-red format enables members to quickly and easily find high-value care:
Top third of quality ratings
Middle third of quality ratings
Bottom third of quality ratings
What Happens When Employees Use Healthcare Bluebook?
Benefits Costs Decrease
Save an average of $1,500 each time an employee uses Bluebook.
Employee Satisfaction Increases
Employees have the tools required to reduce healthcare costs and out-of-pocket expenses.
Medical Outcomes Improve
With one simple solution, employee well-being improves, costs decrease, and positive health outcomes are realized.
The Bluebook Difference
Provider Quality Data
With the acquisition of the quality division of Quantros, Inc., Bluebook owns the largest audited healthcare quality-cost dataset in the U.S.
Fair Price Estimate
Our Fair Price estimates are based on real claims data from thousands of shoppable procedures and are risk- and volume-adjusted for accuracy.
Powerful Search Capabilities
Our user-friendly search engine supports natural language text and enables members to find cost and quality information for thousands of shoppable procedures.
Detailed Reporting
Our solution includes a comprehensive analytics dashboard with clear attribution that demonstrates the movement from high-cost to high-value providers.
Patient Savings Rating
We developed the Patient Savings Rating feature to solve the problem of price discrepancies between different facilities. This feature enables members to find and compare providers based on referral patterns.
Your employees can view the provider-specific Patient Savings Rating, patient reviews, general practice information, and which facilities the provider typically uses to determine the best provider and facility for the care they require.
Why Healthcare Navigation Solutions are Necessary
Many people assume that a high-quality facility has high-quality providers performing procedures, but that’s not always the case.
And with so much complex information surrounding healthcare, how can members sift through it all and find information they can trust?
Healthcare Bluebook is no stranger to transparency. We introduced the concept of transparency in healthcare more than 20 years ago and were founded on the belief that everyone should have access to easy-to-understand cost and quality information.
Using these principles, our Doctor Quality feature was created to highlight how individual providers perform a variety of procedures, including complex procedures such as heart surgeries. These quality measures improve employee well-being by ensuring they receive the highest quality care whenever possible.
Our Doctor Quality Feature
- Ranks providers with our green-yellow-red system.
- Helps members navigate to the highest-quality provider for their unique needs.
- Includes more than 4,000 facilities and 500,000 providers.
- Offers quality rankings for more than 200 procedures.
Best practices that work
Engagement Solutions
Watch your medical spend decrease and the quality of care improve when you change your employees’ healthcare shopping habits through our educate, remind, reinforce best practices.
For even deeper savings, add our Go Green to Get Green incentives program to reward quality-driven, cost-effective healthcare choices.
Our enhanced solution provides personal guidance to high-value providers
Bluebook CareConnect™
Using historical medical claims data, Bluebook has identified the most common high-cost, complex procedures that present the deepest savings opportunities for clients and their enrolled benefits members when care is received from high-value providers.
Employers can add Bluebook CareConnect to their rich benefits offering to provide employees with personal in-network navigation assistance through a member concierge for high-cost complex procedures.
Employee Cindy B. learned about Bluebook by accident when her husband suffered an abdominal aortic aneurysm followed by an abscess on his brain three days after Thanksgiving. Both required life-saving emergency surgeries, extended hospital stays and rehab. Thankfully, he survived. But soon, the bills began to mount.
“When my daughter needed an MRI, the local hospital charged $2,500 for the procedure. I used Healthcare Bluebook to compare price ranges for MRIs in our area and found a “green” provider that charged less than $1,000 for the service, which allowed me to pocket $1,500.”
Shannon S.
Bluebook Client and User