State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday the creation of a nationwide database to help set health-care reimbursement rates, benefiting patients who use doctors outside their insurers’ networks.

A new nonprofit, Fair Health, will develop a database for consumer reimbursement, as well as a Web site where consumers will be able to compare prices before they choose doctors.

Calling prior reimbursement practices an “injustice” and “fraud,” Cuomo said at a Syracuse press conference that Fair Health will “ensure transparency, accountability and fairness” for Americans who use out-of-network doctors.