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Hospital Pricing

A hospital-price comparison interface and data pipeline in development. Public price search is not available yet.

Published hospital charges are difficult to compare across procedure codes, care settings and payer arrangements. This project works toward a procedure-and-location search that keeps source context attached to each price.

Portfolio lens

What this project demonstrates

Product move

Designed around source-attached comparisons instead of treating hospital charge files as simple consumer prices.

Signals

Data-product strategy · messy-source normalization · provenance · consumer UX

Constraint

Published charges are not the same thing as a patient’s out-of-pocket cost.

Inside the project

  1. 01

    Find a procedure

    Translate a plain-language search into the procedure codes used in published files.

  2. 02

    Compare like with like

    Keep inpatient and outpatient settings, cash charges and negotiated rates distinct.

  3. 03

    Inspect the source

    Show the hospital, source file and freshness alongside the result so a number can be checked.

What to know before starting

The pipeline, API and consumer interface exist, but no launch market is active and live coverage is unverified. No patient estimate or live price search is available here. Published charges alone do not establish what an individual will owe.