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transparency-data
U.S. Healthcare Transparency Data. Supplemental data for the CMS/HHS price transparency rules.
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Yeah I think that is a great strategy. I agree though that figuring out exactly what codes pertain to the actual services you plan to get can be difficult in the hospital setting. Are you familiar with the CMS/HHS pricing transparency laws 1 2 that went into effect this year? They don't solve the problem you mentioned of knowing what codes you'll actually be billed for at the end of the day, but in principle they do allow you to avoid having to talk with hospitals (or insurers) to figure out what they bill (or pay). The rules require costs and negotiated rates to be published. The locations of the files can be hard to track down though, so mileage may vary. I have a tangentially related project to document where all of the hospital files live on the web (much easier than the insurer problem), in case you're interested: https://github.com/TPAFS/transparency-data
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