Provider pricing intelligence
Automatically monitored public hospital pricing sources. Search public hospital rate observations with source links, billing context and visible coverage gaps.
Source monitoring
View automated checks, downloads, validation failures and CMS discovery links.
| Hospital | Parish | Status | Retrieved | Preview records | Source |
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Louisiana hospital inventory
Medicare-registered hospitals from the CMS Provider Data Catalog. Discovery does not imply negotiated-rate coverage.
| Hospital | CMS facility ID | Parish | City | Pricing file |
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Negotiated rate explorer
Reported dollar amounts, percentages and contract formulas. The display sample is limited; use exact-code search to query saved collection parts.
Enter an exact billing code to search beyond the display sample.
| Hospital | Service | Code | Payer / Plan | Rate | Provenance |
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Do not use these preview records to estimate plan savings. Rates may have differing settings, modifiers, bundles and billing contexts. Sources may be incomplete or outdated.
Coverage & monitoring history
Full collected datasets
These counts include saved records beyond the display sample. Complete means the negotiated-charge collection reached the end of that source file. Dollar amounts, percentages and formulas remain distinct; they are not interchangeable prices.
| Hospital | Collected records | Coverage | Retrieved | Downloads |
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Unresolved source queue
Temporary failures receive small automatic retry batches. Files requiring bulk extraction remain open until the complete file is processed; another capped sample does not resolve them.
| Hospital | Required action | Reason | Next retry | Attempts |
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Payer visibility
Counts reflect the capped observations currently published. Payer names are reported verbatim; separate names may refer to the same company. Source presence does not establish network participation.
| Reported payer | Sources with observations | Reported plan labels | Observations |
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Daily source checks
Latest completed run per UTC day, retained for 90 days.
| Run completed | Sources | Parsed | Errors | Changed files |
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Discovered links awaiting facility matching
These are publisher-reported links; they may include other states or multiple campuses. They are not assigned to Louisiana hospitals without an identity match.
| Publisher location | Index | File | Status |
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Coverage and methodology
This pilot starts with a seeded set of public Louisiana hospital pricing links. CMS cms-hpt.txt discovery is checked for each registered hospital website. Publisher location names are matched exactly against the Louisiana CMS inventory. Ambiguous and grouped-campus records remain in the matching queue. Independent hospital websites outside the registered publishers are not yet discovered automatically.
Daily GitHub Actions checks source links, validates the parsers, refreshes the CMS inventory and discovers publisher links. Downloads have size and row caps. The explorer shows a bounded sample of fixed-dollar payer-plan rates, not a full rate warehouse. Comparisons must also account for billing class, setting, modifiers, methodology, bundled services and contract notes; matching a code alone is insufficient. Failed sources retain previous observations with their original retrieval dates. Large CSV/JSON files are streamed until the observation or scan budget is reached. A prefix hash only detects changes in retrieved bytes; it is never treated as a full-file fingerprint. ZIP files have complete-download size limits. Failed sources remain visible.
Not yet built: statewide licensing directory integration, statewide independent-publisher discovery and complete validation of all hospital-specific file variants, persistent raw-file object storage, unbounded rate extraction, true carrier network analysis, secure employer accounts and utilization-weighted analytics.