Hospital Pricing Intelligence

The real price of American healthcare. Measured, not modeled.

Every US hospital is required to publish its negotiated rates. Almost no one can read them. ClearPrice reads them at national scale — 560.4M negotiated rates served for instant query across all 50 states — and fuses them with how well hospitals actually care for patients. Below is a working sample. Your market is in here.

560.4M
negotiated rates served for instant query
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5,454
hospitals with current pricing live
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50
states, no samples
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6,839
Medicare Advantage plans
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1,978
hospitals with CMS quality fusion
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Every module below re-renders for the state you pick — that's the product working, not a brochure.
Module 01 · Price dispersion

Same procedure. Same country. Different universe.

Pick a procedure. Each dot is a state's median negotiated rate — the same care, priced by geography. And state medians flatter the chaos: hospital-to-hospital, the same procedure can spread up to 25× nationally.

State median negotiated rate Illustrative values

Medians exclude hospitals we have identified restating list prices as negotiated rates. City-level prices: see the cost explorer →

Module 02 · Quality × price

Paying more doesn't buy better care. Now you can prove it.

Every dot is a hospital: its price percentile against its CMS star rating. If quality set prices, the cloud would climb to the right. It doesn't — the medians barely move. The green zone is where value lives: top-rated care, bottom-third prices.

CMS star rating vs national price percentile Illustrative dots

Thick ticks mark the median price percentile at each star rating — near-identical at every tier.

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Near zero — knowing a hospital's stars tells you almost nothing about its price
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149
hospitals rated 4–5★ priced in the cheapest third nationally
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Same colonoscopy: $320 at 5★ · $972 at 2★
Same market, same procedure, 3× apart — stars didn't set the price. The same example shown on our homepage.
Module 03 · The employer lens

Self-insured plans pay a multiple of Medicare. Which multiple is up to your market.

We benchmark every commercial negotiated rate against what Medicare pays for the identical service at the identical hospital. Darker means your plan dollars stretch less. If you sponsor a health plan, this is the map your renewals never show you.

Commercial rate as a multiple of Medicare Illustrative values

Click a state to make it your market. 1.0× = Medicare pays it. Built from IPPS, OPPS and PFS benchmarks matched rate-by-rate.

Module 04 · Service lines

One market, six service lines, one glance.

Price index by state and service line, where 100 is the national median. Your market pins to the top row — see exactly which service lines drive its costs.

Price index — state × service line Illustrative values

Methodology

Where these numbers come from

Actual, not modeled

Every rate is read from a hospital's own machine-readable file, published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. We don't estimate, extrapolate, or impute prices.

Cleaned before counted

Hospitals we have identified restating list prices as negotiated rates are excluded from the medians on this page. Fabricated and duplicate rate patterns are detected and excluded before any number is published.

Dated and cited

Every headline statistic carries an as-of date and a verifiable source. Hover any ✓ VERIFIED badge to see exactly where a number comes from.

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5,454 of 5,922 loadable hospitals live · 7,110 discovered nationwide · counts are conservative by design (ADR-208)

This page is the sample. The asset goes deeper.

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