ACEP has arranged for its members to receive a 20% discount on the FH Fee Estimator, a new source of independent charge data from private insurance claims. Participants can access emergency medicine charge data for 491 geographic areas nationwide. This tool gives physicians and management a better understanding of the marketplace and allows instant compare charge data to Medicare fees.

The FH Fee Estimator website, www.feeestimator.org, is easy to use for small data requests. But if you need a more sophisticated data set, contact FAIR Health for custom analytics. To get the ACEP 20% discount, enter the promotion code 20ACEP13 at the checkout screen.

FH Fee Estimator is brought to you by the not-for-profit corporation FAIR Health, whose mission is to bring transparency to health care costs through comprehensive data products and consumer resources. Created in 2009 to provide an objective source of data, FAIR Health owns and maintains a database of billions of billed medical and dental services. This database serves as the foundation for benchmark products that reflect the prices charged for health care services in specific geographic markets across the country.

This database is a great resource for emergency physicians groups to inform development of fee schedules and other practice decision making, said David McKenzie, CAE, ACEP’s director of physician reimbursement. The data are available based on an aggregation of zip codes and can be tailored for the geographic area you serve. Because the data are drawn from actual claims, this is a wonderful source of information on fees charged in your area, he added.