HealthLeaders Media August 6, 2020
Alexandra Wilson Pecci

The tool, which doesn’t require website registration, allows users to customize their estimates based on the health service they want and their own insurance coverage information.

The ability to make electronic pre-payments is part of a user-generated cost estimator tool from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville.

Just under four months before the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services price transparency rule is set to go into effect on January 1, 2021, VanderbiltHealth.com has launched an out-of-pocket cost estimator for consumers to get their own estimates for certain procedures.

The online tool generates estimates for certain outpatient services and radiology services, as well as certain inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures.

The tool, which doesn’t require website registration, allows...

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