A community-created guide to health costs

The rising cost of health care is one of the biggest problems we face as a nation. One major issue: it’s often impossible for consumers to easily find out the cost of tests, treatments and services.

This is a work of journalism. It is not a shopping site.

This guide was created by ClearHealthCosts, a New York City journalism startup bringing transparency to the health-care marketplace by telling people what stuff costs. Using a combination of shoe-leather journalism, database sourcing and curation, crowdsourcing and partnering, ClearHealthCosts is revealing the secrets of an opaque marketplace.

Learn more on WLRN's website