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CT Consumers: No Easy Access To Health Care Costs
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Connecticut consumers don’t have an easy way to find out how much a surgical procedure, an x-ray or a blood test costs.You could spend hours on the phone, calling hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices to compare costs. Even Hartford Hospital’s new CarePricer, which is designed to make patients’ queries about hospital costs easier, requires a phone call.