A Transparent Medical Network offers employers and organizations such as unions a set of fair and fully transparent pricing for medical services/procedures ranging from a specific treatment (i.e., knee replacement) to a specific condition (i.e. diabetes). Providers provide up-front pricing at significantly reduced rates in exchange for increased patient volumes, quick pay, reduced friction and the avoidance of claims/collections problems – all factors that allow for providers to have greatly reduced prices while netting a similar amount to standard insurance billing.  Services and procedures are typically bundled, meaning there is just one bill for the all the services rendered across a specific treatment or condition, multiple providers and sometimes multiple settings. Another dimension of transparency is that the network is open to any provider who has sufficiently high quality indicators and is priced fairly...