We believe every American should know what healthcare actually costs before they walk through the door.
Hospital pricing in America has been opaque for decades. A simple MRI can cost $500 at one facility and $5,000 at another — in the same city, on the same machine. Until recently, there was no way to compare prices.
In January 2021, CMS (the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) began requiring all hospitals to publish their prices in machine-readable files. This was a game-changer — for the first time, the actual negotiated rates between hospitals and insurers became public data.
The problem? These files are nearly impossible for regular people to use. They're massive spreadsheets buried on hospital websites, formatted in dozens of different ways, with thousands of billing codes that mean nothing to patients.
We take that raw transparency data and turn it into something useful. For every major medical procedure, we show you:
We aggregate pricing data from multiple sources:
For details on how we process this data, see our Methodology page.
We're developing a zip-code-based search tool that will let you compare prices at specific hospitals near you. If you want to be notified when it launches, sign up on any procedure page.
Have feedback, corrections, or questions? We'd love to hear from you.