[OpenSpending] Insights into healthcare spending? (Dutch Audit Office)

Wed May 15 11:28:28 UTC 2013

Ton,

The US government this month released price listings on all essential
health care services and surgeries from private providers to the US
Medicare program, prompting stories and intriguing comparisons at all major
outlets:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/05/08/business/how-much-hospitals-charge.html?ref=business

The data published openly is available here:
http://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/

I'd be interested to see if government spending on private health care
providers has been opened up in other countries as well.

Anders

On 15 May 2013 06:26, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently preparing an experimental workshop with the Dutch national
> audit office. The central question there is how audit processes might be
> different if open data is playing a role. As a test case they have selected
> the healthcare costs dossier. A report on healthcare costs was published
> recently and now they want to explore how this would have been different
> had there been more open healthcare data.
>
> Is there anyone here who has some experience with open data concerning
> healthcare spending somewhere in the world and/or examples connected to
> healthcare spending?
>
> best,
>
> Ton
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