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Typically, patients, and their employers, don't know the cost of health care or are given inaccurate estimates. Then come the surprise medical bills and costly overruns of employers' benefits budgets. Here's a look at the health care cost transparency problem and how people are trying to solve it.

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My story begins with a return flight home on a Friday night after a stressful business trip. During the flight, I began to experience multiple symptoms: shortness of breath, rapid and irregular heartbeat, and varying pain in my calves.

There was some turbulence on the flight, and while I’m not typically affected by it, I attributed my symptoms to anxiety over a subconscious fear of the plane not landing safely. But my symptoms continued throughout the night even after my safe arrival home, then carried into Saturday and Saturday evening. When I woke up early Sunday morning and continued to experience the symptoms, with even more acute pain in my calves, I did what every self-taught “physician” would do and entered the various warning signs into WebMD. WebMD indicated that my likely condition was a pulmonary embolism and instructed me to call 911 as my condition was urgent.

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