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KHN: Few Use Government Data in Health Care Decisions

Efforts to make health care data widely available were supposed to help guide consumers to better care at lower prices, but less than 9 percent use price information and only 3 percent use physician information.

By Christine AyalaApril 27, 2015, 11:00 p.m. CentralUpdated April 27, 2015, 11:00 p.m. Central

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KHN: Few Use Government Data in Health Care Decisions

by Christine Ayala, The Texas Tribune
April 27, 2015

<h1>KHN: Few Use Government Data in Health Care Decisions</h1>
<p class="byline">by Christine Ayala, The Texas Tribune <br />April 27, 2015</p>
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-9a758062-fc64-cf46-4ffc-f3fa712a9187">The government&rsquo;s effort to make <a href="http://kaiserhealthnews.org/news/few-consumers-are-using-quality-price-information-to-make-health-care-decisions/">health care data</a> widely available was supposed to help guide consumers to better care at lower prices. But, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll, less than 9 percent use information about prices and only 3 percent use information about physicians.</span></p>
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KHN: Few Use Government Data in Health Care Decisions

Christine Ayala, The Texas Tribune
April 27, 2015

The government’s effort to make health care data widely available was supposed to help guide consumers to better care at lower prices. But, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll, less than 9 percent use information about prices and only 3 percent use information about physicians.

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