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Gov. Inslee signs health care information sharing measure

The Columbian
Published: May 13, 2015, 5:00pm

OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that will give consumers, employers, doctors and others more information about the cost and quality of health care providers and services.

The governor has been working on this idea for a health care claims database for two years.

The measure, House Bill 5084, will allow consumers to compare the costs of procedures and medical providers. Twenty other states have similar databases.

Inslee says better information will lead to better health care.

The Legislature passed a related bill in 2014 to create a more limited database that did not require every insurance company to submit their claims information.

The governor’s office worked with insurance companies, doctors and policy makers to address their privacy concerns and come up with the idea behind this new measure.

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