healthcosts.net

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Price transparency rule / machine-readable file

A federal rule (45 CFR §180) requiring every US hospital to publish a machine-readable file listing its gross charges, cash prices and every payer-negotiated rate.

Example

The rule is why this site exists: a hospital's file might be a 300MB JSON dump listing a $145–$53,000 range of prices for one X-ray across every insurance plan it accepts — public, but unreadable without normalizing it first.

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