CarePilot offers service to compare health costs

Scot Wooley began wondering a few years ago why no one had created an online marketplace where consumers could compare prices and save money.

Wooley, a Fort Collins native who now lives in Castle Rock, knew from his own experience that a person needing an MRI could go to a hospital and pay $3,500 while an outpatient facility across the street might have charged $600 for the same service on similar equipment – perhaps with the same doctor reading the scan.

That thought eventually took root, and last summer Wooley launched CarePilot, which he describes…