About Health Worth
The price of care is only half the story.
Health Worth helps people understand both the cost of getting care and the cost of waiting - so they can make more informed healthcare decisions.
Founder
Trisha Rawlings
Why I Built Health Worth
I'm Trisha Rawlings, and I've spent more than 20 years inside how healthcare actually gets priced and paid - in payment integrity, making sure claims are accurate, and in transparency-in-coverage work, the same framework Health Worth is built on.
I've watched how difficult it is, even for experts, to get a straight answer about what care costs. Patients almost never see the full picture: not just the bill in front of them, but the cost of waiting, the lost workdays, and the impact on quality of life.
I built Health Worth to put that whole picture in one place, in plain language, for the people who have to live with the decision.
Invisible illness is a core use case: diagnostic delay, disability, and lost functional capacity can reshape a life even when those costs never appear on a bill.
Why Trust Health Worth?
Health Worth wasn't built by marketers or advertisers. It was built by someone who spent more than two decades working inside the systems that determine what healthcare costs.
20+ Years in Healthcare
Healthcare strategy, operations, and healthcare economics.
Payment Integrity
Experience ensuring healthcare claims and pricing are accurate.
Transparency in Coverage
Built on the same framework used by federal healthcare transparency requirements.
Leadership & Credentials
Founder & CEO, Luxite Health · DrPH Candidate · MPH · MBA · MA
What We Stand For
Built on Credible Data
We use trusted national sources and transparent methodologies to estimate both healthcare costs and real-world impact.
Transparent by Design
We show our assumptions, sources, and methods so users understand how estimates are calculated.
Shows Both Directions
Most healthcare tools only show treatment costs. Health Worth also helps people understand the potential cost of waiting.
Decision Support, Not Medical Advice
Health Worth is designed to help people ask better questions and have more informed conversations with healthcare professionals.
A Personal Note
Healthcare decisions are some of the most important - and expensive - choices people make.
My goal isn't to tell anyone what decision to make.
It's to help people see the full picture before they decide.
- Trisha
Built with lived experience
Medical claims rarely capture missed work, transportation, caregiving, reduced daily function or the practical consequences of delayed care. Health Worth is designed to make those effects visible alongside medical costs.
Health Worth’s shared framework was informed by 30 initial survey responses: five qualitative and twenty-five quantitative. Findings informed revisions before condition-specific review began.
The revised framework and journeys then received 18 condition-specific patient-review contributions across asthma, depression, type 2 diabetes, migraine and throat cancer. Reviewers assessed journeys related to conditions they live with, and their feedback was incorporated into the experience.
These were formative product-research and patient-review activities. They were not clinical research, clinical validation, health-economic validation or evidence that Health Worth improves clinical or financial outcomes. Counts are responses and review contributions, not verified unique participants. Individual journey pages identify their current validation status.
What Health Worth is—and is not
Health Worth is
- A public decision aid
- An evidence-traceable estimation tool
- A reusable condition-journey framework
- An educational resource
Health Worth is not
- A personalized medical recommendation
- An insurance quote
- A clinical diagnosis
- A guarantee of future costs
- A substitute for professional care
- A validated population-outcomes model, unless specifically stated
Ready to See the Full Picture?
Compare the cost of care with the cost of waiting and explore healthcare decisions from both sides.