1. Put Treatment Cost Calculator to work for you and your employees
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2. Truven Health Analytics® was acquired by IBM in 2016 to help form a new business, Watson Health™. Watson Health aspires to improve lives and give hope by delivering innovation to address the world’s most pressing health challenges through data and cognitive insights. 2

3. Consumer engagement at each stage
Guide individuals to their best-fit benefit plan
Help them manage their care
Provide tools to evaluate & select treatments
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Help plan for out-of-pocket expenses
Assist with provider selection
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4. Treatment Cost Calculator4

5. The need for price transparency tools
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Patients bear a larger fraction of spending through increased deductibles, co-payments and co-insurance
Variation in pricing: the same procedure in the same market can vary 100% in price1
Over 50% of US states have passed legislation establishing price transparency websites or mandating that health plans, hospitals or physicians make price information available to patients2
1Coluni, B., Save $36 Billion in U.S. Healthcare Spending Through Price Transparency, Thomas Reuters, February 2012, 2deBrantes,F., MS,MBA; Delbanco,S., PhD, Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) – Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws, July 2016,
Variation in pricing stat comes from our infographic
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6. The value to you
Provide consumers with easy-to-use experience to help guide better healthcare decisions and drive cost savings
Enable consumers to better budget for healthcare expenses
Create better educated and more engaged healthcare consumers
Enhance employee satisfaction and appreciation for their benefits
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7. Treatment Cost Calculator at-a-glance
Convenience
Intuitive, responsive app
Support for mobile devices
Users can search for treatments, physicians or hospitals
Accuracy
550+ shoppable treatments
Accurate cost bundles
Graphical display of treatment cost sharing
Integration
Estimate API solution available
Personalized, shopping support for member care
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8. Cost estimation process
Near real-time estimates with consumer’s own benefit information
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9. Predicting patient liability
MRI of Lumbar Spine Example
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10. Demo
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11. Delivering value to you
Why Treatment Cost Calculator?
Features
Personalizes cost and health management recommendations based on the consumer
Easy-to-use interface allows users to efficiently search for treatment, provider or facility
Creates estimates based on the MarketScan® database and paid claims data to more accurately reflect costs
Multiple user flows allows the tool to be flexible to consumers’ needs
Optional add-on features: Provider Patient Satisfaction; Spending Account Integration FSA/HSA
Fill gaps in data for specific provider/treatment estimates with MarketScan data (up to 100x amount of data)
Data results in highly accurate estimates
Truven Health has 40 years experience in data management; a decade in the consumer space
550+ “shoppable” treatments
Currently available to 28M consumers
TCC’s ability to offer a personalized cost estimate – most marketplace tools offer a regional median estimate
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12. The Truven Health difference
We Turn Data Into Action
We Are Passionate About Healthcare
We Know Virtually Everyone in the Industry
We Are Independent and Objective
We’ve Been Doing This Forever
We LOVE Data
We’re Only Happy When You’re Happy
We Have a Really Sharp Team
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