In a recent announcement by Andrew Cuomo, New York's Attorney General, he expressed the need for a new database of medical prices. Calling the current version maintained by the UnitedHealth Group "flawed", he urged FAIR Health Inc., a new not-for-profit company, and a group of New York Universities to join hands and develop and maintain a new national database.

Post receiving various complaints about how UnitedHealth's database had caused many insurance companies to underpay doctors, as a result of which patients were being left with huge medical bills, Cuomo investigated the same and found that the database actually did have many flaws and needed to be better organized.

FAIR Health Inc., a non-profit firm, post the announcement, will come together with Syracuse University and others, and start a completely new, independent database which can then be used by the health insurance firms to calculate payments they need to make to doctors, in favor of the older, apparently flawed database. For the new development, Cuomo will be putting in nearly $100 Million.

Cuomo firmly believes that the new database for medical prices "will bring much-needed transparency, accountability and fairness to a broken consumer reimbursement system we have called Code Blue".