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7,400+ hospitals · federal MRF filings
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The price is already public. Search a procedure — then compare, email the hospital, or challenge a bill above the posted cash rate.
Regional MedicalMRI brain · 70551$3,840
vs12 mi apart
Community ImagingSame procedure$890
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The Mission
For decades, healthcare pricing operated in a black box. When transparency first became law, institutions
responded with unreadable datasets. The data was deliberately obfuscated.
A 2026 report from the Purchaser Business Group on
Health showed how the system rewards opacity: negotiated insurance rates are often higher than what a patient would
pay in cash. When pricing stays hidden, that spread remains invisible to the people paying the bill.
The 2026 OPPS/ASC Final Rule (CMS-1834-FC) requires hospitals to publish actual dollar amounts in
MRFs using EDI 835 payment data, include a Type 2 NPI and executive attestation, and stop using placeholders
like 999999999.
Enforcement began April 1, 2026.
Healthspend was engineered to enforce this
mandate.
The terminal continuously audits over 7,400 US hospital nodes against the federal schema. It extracts exact
cash rates, logs regulatory noncompliance, and provides the programmatic leverage necessary for patients to
instantly route federal complaints.
Healthspend is the data foundation helping build a transparent healthcare market.
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Filing and enforcement
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Hospital Billing Codes
CPT Code Glossary
CPT CODES ARE MAINTAINED BY THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. THIS REFERENCE IS FOR PATIENT EDUCATION ONLY.