It stands to reason that if you know how much something is goingto cost you, you can make better decisions about whether andhow to pay for it.

But when it comes to health care plans, not so much. That’saccording to a HealthMine survey of consumers with sponsored healthinsurance, 39 percent of whom say their plans don’t offer them atool to help them predict how much their care will costthem.

A report in 2014 by the Gary and Mary West HealthPolicy Center has found that giving consumers prices for healthcare could cut spending on U.S. care by more than $100 billionduring the next 10 years, but that doesn’t mean plans are providingtheir members with ways to predict how much they’ll end up payingfor health care services, visits to providers or gettingprescriptions filled.

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