Hospital Price Comparison Site - Hospitals must publish their real prices by federal law. I read all the San Antonio files so you don't have to. Since 2021, every hospital in the US has been required by federal law (45 CFR 180) to publish a machine-readable file with their actual prices, gross charges, cash prices, and the rates they've negotiated with each insurer. Almost nobody reads these files because they're enormous and messy (San Antonio's alone are gigabytes of JSON and CSV). I've spent the last month parsing them, starting with San Antonio. Some things I found in our hospitals' own published data: * A brain MRI (CPT 70551–70553) runs about **$305–360 in negotiated rates** at the Methodist hospitals, while the **cash price** is \~$1,474 at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa and \~$1,792 at University Health. The gross "list price" for the same scan at Methodist is **$11,040**. * Sometimes cash beats insurance: a colonoscopy at CHRISTUS Santa Rosa has a **$742 cash price**, while the Aetna-negotiated rates around town run **$2,400–3,100**. If you have a high deductible you haven't met, the cash price can genuinely be the cheaper option, and you're allowed to ask for it. * Some hospitals publish real self-pay discounts; others' "cash price" is just the full list price. The files tell you which is which. So I built [**chargefacts.com**](http://chargefacts.com/), type a procedure and your ZIP, and it ranks nearby hospitals by price (cash or by your insurer). It's free, no ads, no signup, no tracking, and I don't take money from hospitals or insurers. It currently covers 192 Texas hospitals including all the major SA systems (Methodist, CHRISTUS, University Health, Baptist). Honest caveats, because this data deserves them: these are the hospitals' own published figures, not quotes, the facility fee only (surgeon/anesthesia usually bill separately), and some hospitals publish stale or incomplete files (the site flags those instead of hiding them). Every number links back to the hospital's source file so you can check my work. I built this solo and it's early, if you search something and the result looks wrong or confusing, I genuinely want to hear it. What you look for and can't find is exactly what I'll build next. I apologize if this counts as self promotion. I just think this is helpful and don't have ads etc just wanting to spread awareness and make this something actually useful.
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