Hospital Price Transparency: cash-price spread across U.S. hospitals, Q2 2026
Hospital Price Transparency: cash-price spread across U.S. hospitals, Q2 2026
We analyzed published Hospital Price Transparency files from a curated set of U.S. hospitals to characterize the variation in cash-pay prices for twelve commonly-billed procedures. For every featured procedure, the published cash price varies by a factor of one hundred or more across hospitals. We compare median cash prices to Medicare-allowed amounts from the CMS Physician Fee Schedule.
Canonical HTML version: https://www.medibillsaver.com/research/q2-2026-hpt-cash-spread. Foundation methodology: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20232731 (10.5281/zenodo.20232731). Editorial standard: states facts, cites sources, does not characterize any hospital, provider, or insurer; does not claim what a charge should cost.
CMS Physician Fee Schedule, medical billing, federal public data, patient-side audit, healthcare cost transparency, Hospital Price Transparency
CMS Physician Fee Schedule, medical billing, federal public data, patient-side audit, healthcare cost transparency, Hospital Price Transparency
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