Three ways to start.
Search by what you need, your insurance, or the hospital you're going to. Every price is straight from that hospital's own published file.
Every price comes straight from the hospital's federally-mandated machine-readable file. The "cash price" is the self-pay discount they're required to publish. Your actual bill depends on your plan, deductible, and copay.
Three steps. No fees, no signup.
Search
Type a procedure name ("MRI knee"), a CPT code (73721), an insurer, or a hospital. We match it against every U.S. hospital's published price file.
Compare
See the gross price, the cash discount, and the rate every insurance plan negotiated — side by side across hundreds of hospitals.
Decide
Pick the hospital that costs less for the procedure you need. Bring the price to your appointment if there's a dispute. (Always confirm directly — we publish what they published.)
The law's been on the books since 2021. The database wasn't.
- ▸Under 45 CFR § 180, every U.S. hospital must publish a machine-readable price file — gross charges, cash prices, negotiated rates, and min/max — free, public, no signup.
- ▸Most hospitals technically comply by uploading a giant unreadable file. We parsed all 4,625 of them so you don't have to.
- ▸Mark Cuban built Cost Plus Drugs for the same reason — pricing transparency in healthcare. We're doing it for hospitals.
Search every hospital
Real-time filter across all 5,426 facilities
Top 25 worst offenders
CMS-required hospitals with the most enforcement actions and no findable MRF.
| CCN | Hospital | City, State | CMS actions |
|---|
Worst states
By share of CMS-required hospitals with a live MRF.
| State | Total | Live | % live |
|---|
By facility type
Rural Emergency Hospitals (the newest category) lag furthest.
Sources / methodology
The inputs, checks, and limits are listed here on the site, not just in the repo.
- CMS Hospital General Information supplies the hospital universe and CCNs.
- TPAFS/transparency-data supplies the initial MRF seed URLs.
- CMS Enforcement Activities supplies warning, CAP, CMP, and closure records.
- 45 CFR § 180 defines what hospitals are required to publish.
- Start with all CMS-required hospitals.
- Join known MRF links from the seed datasets.
- Probe URLs live and follow redirects to verify which files actually respond.
- Rediscover missing files from hospital transparency pages when the seed is dead.
- Parse live CSV, JSON, XLSX, ZIP, and wrapper-page formats into one schema.
- Generate the on-site standardized price previews from those parsed files.
Current on-site preview coverage: — hospitals with standardized price rows.
- Compliant means a live machine-readable file was found and verified.
- Missing means no live public MRF was found after automated discovery and probing.
- Under CMS enforcement means the hospital appears in CMS's public enforcement record.
- Standardized price preview appears when parsed rows were actually generated for that hospital.
Current limits: some hospitals are behind bot-defense or publish malformed files. Missing rows can mean non-compliance, anti-bot blocking, or broken vendor output.
🩺 Live prices — standardized, on-site
Parsed directly from each hospital's MRF into a unified schema. No external links — search prices by CPT or HCPCS code below.
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