About Patients Price

Hospital prices in America are famously secret — even though hospitals have been required by federal law to publish them since 2021. The prices exist, but they live in giant spreadsheet files on hospital websites, written in billing codes no patient can read.

Patients Price collects those files from hospitals across the country and translates them into plain English: search a procedure, see what hospitals actually charge and what insurers actually negotiated.

We're starting with 1,062 hospitals, 476 procedures, and 333,874 published prices — and the honest limitations are on our methodology page, because trust is the whole product.

What we won't do

We never estimate prices, we never change a hospital's numbers, and we never sell your data. There's no account and no cookies — the only thing we count is anonymous page views, so we can tell which pages help people.

How this site is funded

Patients Price is free for patients. We never sell patient data, and hospitals cannot pay to influence rankings, prices, or recommendations. Our business is funded by organizations that use our healthcare pricing data, including employers, benefits consultants, and developers.