How we get prices
Every price on this site can be traced to where it came from.
Straight from the source
Federal law requires hospitals to publish their prices in a standard file. We download each hospital's file from its own website, check it, and show you what they published, exactly.
Checked before you see it
Prices that look like mistakes (like $0.01 for surgery) are held back for review instead of shown as the lowest.
Providers who list their own prices
Surgery centers, dentists, clinics and med spas can list prices. We verify every provider's license and business before their prices appear, and label their prices as set by the provider.
Never a guess
If a place hasn't published a price, we say so. We never estimate, fill in, or swap in a different service or plan.
How we make money
Providers pay to list their own prices after a free trial. Money never buys a better rank, a badge, or a label.
Where the information comes from
Hospital prices: each hospital's own price file, as required by federal law. Hospitals, surgery centers and quality ratings: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Offices and practices: the national provider list (NPPES). Health centers: HRSA. Places: U.S. Census Bureau. Help-paying limits: MACPAC and state agencies. Hospital website leads: the community-built DoltHub "standard-charge-files" list (CC BY-SA 4.0), each checked against the hospital's own website. Provider prices and specials: entered by the providers themselves.