"Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has unveiled a new public website comparing the costs of about 1,200 procedures across its providers networks -- an attempt to offer consumers a guide in the great morass of healthcare reimbursement, and also a risky move that may leave some providers feeling underpaid.... The public database's 1,200 procedures represent about 80 percent of the insurers' non-emergency healthcare spending, and predictably, it shows a wide variation in payments across facilities and geographies."

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