“While we fully support the concept of price and quality transparency for the industry, we weren’t able to get answers about the governance and operating costs of HCCI,” Jon Sandberg, a Cigna spokesman, said in an e-mail. Until the company has “full details” on those issues, he said, “we will not be participating.”
The cost institute said it planned to combine details on commercial payments to health providers with data from the insurers’ Medicare and Medicaid plans, where possible. Data from other insurers and from the government-run Medicare and Medicaid programs may be added later, the institute said.