Health care database will post negotiated prices

Three of the nation’s biggest health insurance companies -- Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare -- are working with a nonprofit research institute to develop and post detailed information online about health care prices and quality. The new database is expected to go live early next year. UnitedHealthcare has about 127,500 members in the Sacramento region, but others can use the database, too. Like a new Medicare database launched last year, this one by the Washington, D.C.-based Health Care Cost… Reported by bizjournals 6 hours ago.