Transparency: do it right

Health care reform has brought with a host of websites and surveys. There are now almost as many hospital and physician ranking sites as there are political polls in this election year.

The one area that seems to elude capture is pricing -- something that is clearly important to patients who are being asked (correctly) to pay a larger share of the cost of their care. If quality outcomes are similar, why not pay a little less for that colonoscopy?

WBUR's Healthcare Savvy tries to stay on top of the issue, transparency being a key part of Massachusetts' access, quality and cost efforts.

The Center for Health Information and Analysis is charged with state government's responsibility to open those doors -- and The Boston Globe takes a look at the issues that have stalled efforts at greater transparency.