CLEVELAND — We all know medical costs can be confusing, but it’s about to get a lot easier. A national patient advocacy group will launch an online tool starting tomorrow so you can shop for your medical needs.

“I just got a bill for some bloodwork that seemed really high to me,” said Ilaria Santangelo.

As a patient, she knew something wasn’t right.

“I went on my hospital’s website. I downloaded their pricing file and I compared line-by-line the prices from my insurer that I was charged,” she told us.

As the director of Research at Patient Rights Advocate (PRA), she has a better way for people in Ohio to get medical pricing info than going line by line: PRA’s new site, OhioHospitalPrices.org .

“So, all Ohioans can easily access these prices so they can shop for care on the front end

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