We believe every patient deserves to know the cost of their care before they walk through the door — not after.
Healthcare in the United States has a pricing problem. Two hospitals across the street from each other can charge $800 and $8,000 for the exact same MRI — and most patients have no way of knowing which is which until the bill arrives weeks later.
I spent years watching patients navigate this system blindfolded. Employers trying to build smarter benefits packages couldn't get straight answers on what procedures actually cost. Benefits advisors were working from anecdotal data and gut instinct. The information existed — hospitals were legally required to publish it — but no one had made it usable.
In 2020, the federal government passed the Hospital Price Transparency Rule, requiring every U.S. hospital to publish machine-readable price files. Most hospitals buried these files in obscure corners of their websites in formats designed to be unreadable. We built the infrastructure to ingest, standardize, and surface that data at scale.
careprices.ai is the result: a free, no-login, no-insurance-required search engine for real healthcare prices. We cover 6,500+ facilities and over 5 billion individual pricing data points — updated as hospitals publish new filings.
The information asymmetry that lets providers charge wildly different prices with no consequence ends when patients can see the numbers. That's what we're here for.
Every price on careprices.ai comes from federally mandated hospital price transparency filings — the same files hospitals are legally required to publish for you.
All prices come directly from files hospitals are legally required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR § 180). We don't estimate or model prices — we surface what hospitals already published.
This data is public by law. We keep it that way. No account required, no insurance card, no personal information. Search prices the same way you'd search anything on the web.
Hospitals update their price transparency files regularly. Our pipeline continuously ingests new filings to keep prices current. Stale data costs patients money — we keep ours fresh.
We're funded to make price transparency work, not to monetize access to your health information. The search tool is free. We earn through advertising and data partnerships — never by charging patients for information that's legally theirs.
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