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Your care, your price, in the open

Before you get care, you deserve to know what it costs — and whether it’s any good.

For decades you couldn’t tell. Now you can — with data from hospitals across all 50 states.

Why this is hard

You can’t see the price before you buy — and price tells you nothing about the quality of your care.

Healthcare is the one thing you purchase without ever seeing the price tag. And the guess everyone makes — that the pricey hospital must be the good one — turns out to be wrong.

The same colonoscopy
$362
Aetna’s negotiated rate at Boulder Community Health — four stars
The same colonoscopy
$6,503
Aetna’s negotiated rate at Good Samaritan, nine miles away — four stars

Same insurer, same four-star rating — 18x the price. Across 1,978 rated hospitals, price and quality barely relate — the correlation is −0.10. The stars don’t explain the price.

Diagnostic colonoscopy (CPT 45378) — negotiated facility rates from each hospital’s federally mandated pricing file.

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Another angle

Compare the cash price.

Most insurance prices for a colonoscopy in our files are higher than the same hospital’s posted cash price. At Lee Memorial in Fort Myers, the cash price is $2,245 — every insurer that discloses a rate there pays more.

Before you choose cash: it usually won’t count toward your deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. Compare both numbers, then check with your plan.

The turn

Put price and quality side by side — and act on it.

Find the lowest-cost hospitals near you

Compare real negotiated rates for your procedure at hospitals in your area — before you schedule.

See quality next to price

CMS star ratings and patient-satisfaction scores right beside the cost, so you’re never choosing blind.

Estimate what you’ll actually pay

Your real out-of-pocket across Original Medicare, Medigap, and 6,839 Medicare Advantage plans.

Find the 149 best-value hospitals

Top-rated care at bottom-third prices — the hospitals that quietly deliver both. We surface them.

The same woman sits calmly at her laptop, lit by the screen, with a relieved and confident expression — finally able to see her options clearly.
Why it matters

Care should never be a guess. Now it doesn’t have to be.

The prices were always yours by law — hospitals just published them where no one could read them. We made them readable, put quality right next to them, and did it for every hospital that publishes usable prices — 5,509 so far, across all 50 states.

Start now

See what your care really costs. Free.

Search a procedure, or we’ll tell you the moment it opens in your area.