The purpose of this primer is to help you succeed at providing useful comparative information on health care cost and resource use to consumers. You can use this primer to help your staff and partners:

• Understand and explain why your Alliance is choosing to report cost and resource use measures to consumers in your community.
• Recognize and address some of the challenges involved in reporting this information.
• Discover what your Alliance can do to spur advances in reporting cost and resource use measures to consumers.