Get essential information on costs for thousands of procedures and learn insurance basics. Tools, resources and educational content to help older adults better navigate the healthcare system, plan for healthcare costs and make more informed decisions. FAIR Health's mission is to help you understand your healthcare costs and health coverage and to bring transparency to healthcare costs and insurance. We are an independent, national nonprofit organization known for providing fair and neutral information to all those we serve, including consumers like you.
We are able to provide reliable information about healthcare costs because each year health insurers around the country send us over 2 billion healthcare claim records, which are added to FAIR Health's database of more than 49 billion claim records. We use information from those claims to estimate what providers charge, and what insurers pay, for providing healthcare to patients all across the country.
We make this information available to consumers, researchers, businesses and many others. Our cost estimates are based on claims for medical and dental services paid for by private insurance plans, including the country's largest insurers. Our database includes more than 49 billion private health care claim records and 49 billion Medicare claim records for 10, services in all areas of the United States, dating back to We receive about 2 billion new records each year.
FAIR Health uses these powerful data to create a reliable picture of healthcare costs around the country, and locally. To keep our cost information current, we ask our contributors to send us new records regularly throughout the year, and we update the cost data on this website twice each year. In addition to creating tools for consumers, we make information available to doctors, hospitals, health plans, employers, researchers, policy makers and others to help them make informed decisions related to healthcare and its costs.
A testament to the fairness and reliability of our data, New York, Connecticut and many other states have adopted FAIR Health's cost information as the guidepost in laws protecting consumers, and for many other purposes. FAIR Health strives to make sure that our website, mobile app and other resources help consumers like you find the information you need. We are proud of the recognition that our consumer site has received. Consumer rights groups and the healthcare industry have given a number of awards to our easy-to-use website, mobile app and other resources that help consumers find useful and reliable information.
