Hacking healthcare: Checkout our Startup Weekend project, CarePrice

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We were happy to finish Startup Weekend 6 in Charlotte with a fully functional site and demo including a compare demo, mailing list, contact form, authentication, user management, and backend demo containing private health provider data demonstrating out of pocket costs to users (a much different number than the frontend medicare data).

We're looking for our first integration with a small to medium sized health insurance agency that doesn't have the resources to build such a system themselves. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please contact me at corey@coreyballou.com and we can discuss.

The website itself doesn't lend itself well to explaining our pitch, but everyone should find it useful nonetheless. Please don't hesitate to ask questions reddit AMA style.

Did you include HHS hospital charge data? If not, might be a nice fit: http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2013pres/05/20130508a.html

Our public facing demo at http://www.careprice.co/compare/ utilizes the full CMS data set (200,000+ records) and is freely available. While this data is useful, it doesn't directly represent out-of-pocket costs for consumers and doesn't factor in things such as in-network and out-of-network costs as well as the specific insurance provider plans for a companies employees.

Our vision is that the paid backend version of the site will utilize insurance provider data for each individual's insurance plan to accurately price out healthcare procedures/issues.

We have a grandiose vision and we're looking for a pilot partner insurance company.

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