u/ihateroomba

check out medcompare.co

find your state, type some of your bill code and see if you can negotiate with your bill, suggesting the price is cheaper at another hospital.

worth a shot.

Hospitals are legally required to publish their prices, but in reality they hide them inside massive machine-readable files that are basically unusable for normal people. The same procedure can vary wildly depending on where you go—sometimes by 10x, 20x, even more.

So I made this:

https://medcompare.co/explorer.html

You can search by procedure name, CPT code, or hospital and compare cash/self-pay prices across thousands of hospitals.

A few things it does:
• no account required
• works for uninsured + high-deductible plans
• compares cash prices across 3,000+ hospitals
• pulls from federally required hospital price transparency files
• covers millions of procedures across 46 states

I originally built it because I was frustrated that this information technically exists, but is practically inaccessible unless you want to read giant hospital spreadsheets for fun.

It’s not perfect yet, but I wanted to make something actually useful instead of letting this data stay buried.

Would love feedback from people here—especially on what would make it more helpful or easier to use. (medcompare.co)