Show HN: Hospital Price Watch: Transparent, Shoppable Hospital Prices

Category: other

Tags: healthcare, price-transparency, data-visualization, civic-tech

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 4, Utility: 7)

Hospital Price Watch aggregates CMS-mandated hospital price transparency data for 302 hospitals in NY, NJ, and CT, providing a regional-median price ratio and comparison tool. It fills a gap in healthcare price transparency by making negotiated rates easily shoppable and validated against RAND claims data. The project is a practical, data-driven civic tool with moderate technical complexity.

Target audience: consumers, healthcare analysts, policy researchers, patient advocates

Repository: https://hospitalpricewatch.com/

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