Hospital Price Finder is an information resource about US hospital prices. These are the standards we hold our data and content to.
Where every number comes from
Every price traces back to a primary source: the hospital’s own machine-readable file, required under federal law (45 CFR §180), and CMS fee schedules for the Medicare benchmark. We link to each hospital’s source file on its page so you can verify it yourself. See our methodology and data sources.
How we check accuracy
- We map each hospital’s billing codes to a curated catalog, choosing a canonical code so a procedure aggregates consistently.
- We report the median (robust to outliers) and flag/exclude implausible values — e.g. cash prices far outside the national range, or chargemaster below cash.
- We price inpatient stays from the whole-stay DRG, not stray professional-fee codes.
- Pages with too few hospitals to be reliable are excluded from search engines.
How current the data is
We refresh quality ratings and benchmarks on a schedule and re-publish; each page shows a “data last updated” date, and hospital pages show when that hospital’s file was retrieved.
Corrections
If something looks wrong, tell us. We review reports against the source file and fix confirmed errors.
Independence
We do not accept payment to change, hide or re-order any hospital’s prices or rankings. Prices and quality ratings are presented as found in the public data.
Not professional advice
All figures are estimates for general comparison and are not medical, billing or financial advice. Confirm prices with the hospital and your insurer before care.
Questions about our standards? Contact us.