Determine the true cost of health care procedures in your area

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The Healthcare Blue Book is a free consumer guide to help you determine fair prices in your area for healthcare services. If you pay for your own healthcare, have a high deductible or need a service your insurance does not fully cover, they can help. The Blue Book will help you find fair prices for surgery, hospital stays, doctor visits, medical tests and much more. Where I can see this site as being useful is in weeding out the price gougers in the medical field or helping someone in determining whether they can afford an elective procedure. Print out the report and use it as a bargaining tool on your next procedure. But caveat Emptor, do not choose a doctor soley on cost or you could be sorry. Healthcare is complicated and there are differences between methodology and procedure, what's needed and what's not.