Observed arrival · 2026-09-11
Hospital Price Grid Puts Negotiated Rates Side by Side
A public pricing tool compares hospital-negotiated rates for procedures across insurance types, with the federal Medicare rate as a baseline.
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The project converts large hospital machine-readable price files into procedure-level comparisons organized by hospital and insurance type, including PPO, HMO, Medicare Advantage, and cash rates. Its current pilot lists six comparisons across Chicago, Dallas–Fort Worth, and Houston for brain MRI and diagnostic colonoscopy, involving between 8 and 15 hospitals per comparison. The page says its pipeline checks hospital identity against federal registries before presenting the figures and reports more than 2.7 million verified rate rows.
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