How it works
Find a procedure, compare what hospitals actually charge, and trace every number back to its source.
1. Search for a procedure or hospital
Start from the procedures list to compare one service across hospitals, or from the hospitals list to see everything a single hospital publishes. You can also browse by state.
2. Compare three kinds of price
Every hospital publishes its charges in three forms, and they can differ by an order of magnitude:
- Negotiated — the rate an insurer has agreed to pay. We show the median across plans, with the low–high range, since the same procedure is priced differently for different insurers.
- Cash — the discounted price for self-pay or uninsured patients paying directly.
- Gross — the chargemaster list price, before any discount or insurance. Almost no one pays this, but it's the starting point.
3. Read the numbers carefully
We report a representative facilityprice per procedure — the cost of the hospital's service itself — and try to exclude separate professional or component line items that would otherwise make a price look misleadingly low. Prices are shown exactly as each hospital reports them.
These figures are for comparison and information only. They are not a quote and not a guarantee of what you'll be billed — your final cost depends on your specific care, your insurance, and the hospital. Always confirm directly before a procedure.
4. Verify the source
Every hospital page links to the exact machine-readable file the prices came from and the date we ingested it. If something looks wrong, you can check the original — and tell us so we can fix it. For the full sourcing and pricing logic, see our methodology.