Healthcare pricing shouldn't be a mystery.
My Health Price is an independent tool that helps patients, caregivers, and researchers understand what hospitals actually charge — before they receive a bill.
What My Health Price Is
My Health Price aggregates and displays hospital price data that hospitals are legally required to publish. We make that data searchable, comparable, and easy to understand — so you don't have to download gigantic spreadsheets or decode machine-readable files yourself.
Our goal is simple: give everyone access to the same pricing information that used to be buried in technical documents accessible only to insurers and large employers. An informed patient is a better-positioned patient.
How the Data Works
Since January 1, 2021, the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule has required every hospital in the United States to publicly post their prices in two formats:
- A machine-readable file (MRF) with standard charges for all items and services, including all payer-specific negotiated rates.
- A consumer-friendly display of at least 300 "shoppable" services in a format patients can easily understand.
My Health Price ingests these MRFs directly from hospital websites and normalizes them into a consistent, searchable database. Prices are linked to standard CPT procedure codes so you can compare equivalent procedures across different hospitals.
Cash Price vs. Negotiated Rate
Cash / Self-Pay Price
The discounted price a hospital offers patients who pay directly — without using insurance. This is often significantly lower than the "chargemaster" (list) price. If you're uninsured or your deductible is high, this number matters most.
Negotiated Rate
The contracted price an insurance company has agreed to pay the hospital for a specific service. Different insurers (and different plans within the same insurer) negotiate different rates. Your actual out-of-pocket cost also depends on your deductible, copay, and coinsurance.
Neither price represents what you will definitely pay. See our data limitations section below.
How Often Data Is Updated
Hospitals are required to update their machine-readable files at least once per year, though many update them more frequently. My Health Price re-ingests hospital MRF data on a rolling basis, prioritizing hospitals that have published new files. Each price card shows the date the record was last updated in our system. Because MRF publication schedules vary by hospital, some records may be several months old. We recommend verifying prices directly with the hospital before making any decisions.
Data Limitations & Disclaimer
Prices are estimates. The figures on My Health Price are sourced directly from hospital-published files, but your actual bill will depend on many factors: your specific insurance plan, deductible status, whether the provider is in-network, the exact services performed, facility fees, and more.
Data may be incomplete or stale.Not all hospitals publish MRFs correctly or on schedule, and some procedures may be missing from a hospital's file. MRF formatting varies widely between hospitals, and our parsing process — while thorough — may miss some records.
This is not medical or financial advice.Always verify costs directly with your hospital's billing department and your insurance company before scheduling any procedure.
Who We Are
My Health Price is built and maintained by an independent team with no affiliations to any hospital system, insurance company, or other healthcare entity. We have no financial relationship with any of the institutions whose data appears on this site.
We are a small team who believe healthcare pricing transparency is a public good — and that access to this information shouldn't require a background in data science or a team of lawyers to decode it.
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