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6 points by SteveCoast 6 years ago · 4 comments · 1 min read


https://price.hospital/

I'm attempting to make US hospital prices searchable and comparable after congress enacted price transparency.

I'm aware that there are severe problems here as the prices are so opaque. The prices quoted are not the insurance-negotiated prices, it's taking time to load in and clean up all the data, hospital compliance with transparency is... mixed... But we have to move the ball forward somehow. Also the site is missing many obvious features that I'm hacking (like human-readable procedure names like "cat scan" = "ct imaging" but hey.

All feedback welcome, thanks!

notadog 6 years ago

Where did you source all of the prices from?

  • SteveCoastOP 6 years ago

    Well, that's part of the hard work. Each hospital publishes it in a different way, usually behind a lot of walls, and in different formats.

wattengard 6 years ago

Are we allowed to submit filthy socialist country prices like Norway? * runs away

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