The prices behind a medical bill are public: insurers and hospitals are required by federal law to publish them. They publish them in files almost nobody can read. This site reads them.
The rate each insurer has already agreed to pay doctors and clinics in its networks, procedure by procedure — for 58 insurers, including UnitedHealthcare, Centene and Aetna, summarised by state on a map. From the files insurers must publish every month under the Transparency in Coverage rule.
Each hospital's cash price, list price, and what every insurer pays it — for 3,699 hospitals in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, side by side on a map. From the files hospitals must publish under the Hospital Price Transparency rule.
Search a procedure and see what each Ohio hospital and surgery center is paid under your insurance network, or its cash price — with a cost calculator, a comparison of networks by county for employers, and a scorecard of how usable each insurer's and hospital's published data is.
Insurers publish what they pay every provider in their networks, for every billing code. That shows how prices vary between doctors and places, but only for one insurer at a time.
Hospitals publish what they charge: a list price, a cash price, and the rate agreed with each insurer. That shows how the same insurer pays different hospitals, and how different insurers pay the same one.
Neither is your bill. What you owe depends on your deductible, copay and coinsurance. Use these prices to compare, not to predict.