It turns the price files hospitals are legally forced to publish into a gap you can actually read, which is the number a patient needs before disputing a bill.

BillMender crawled the machine-readable price files US hospitals must post and pulled out 29 everyday services, such as an emergency visit, across 482 hospitals in 48 states. Each shows the sticker charge next to what insurers really paid, using only per-service fee schedules with at least three insurers and a Medicare sanity check. Surgery is left out as too inconsistent to compare. The report is free; the site also offers a free bill-error checker and a $49 dispute-letter packet.

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