About Hospital Cost Finder

What this site does

We use public hospital machine-readable price files, official hospital estimator and price-transparency pages, and CMS hospital information. The site explains one scheduled service and billing code at a time, labels the price type, and shows practical next steps.

Hospital Cost Finder does not provide medical advice, insurance advice, or a promise of what anyone will pay. A hospital or insurer estimate is the better source for a person's expected cost.

How a price page is checked

• The source row is checked against the configured billing code, code type, modifier, setting, billing class, and match priority.
• Displayed ranges use one comparable price type; differently labeled prices are kept separate.
• Recommendations and price-difference statements are generated from the rows visible on the page.
• Published terminal pages require an external source and a practical hospital estimate or contact path.
• The content-reviewed date advances only after the page's wording, links, and displayed facts are reviewed.

Read the full price-comparison methodology and source inventory.

How the dates work

• Source file dated: the date supplied by the hospital file, when one is available.
• Prices checked: when Hospital Cost Finder imported and checked the matched price rows.
• Content reviewed: when the page's visible explanation, links, and recommendations were reviewed.

A content-review date is not automatically changed by rebuilding the website.

Corrections

Hospital price files can be difficult to interpret and can change. If a price, billing code, source, or explanation appears wrong, tell us so we can check the public source and correct the page.

Report a price or coding error.