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Help improve US healthcare price transparency

Submit a US healthcare price you were quoted or billed

TreatCompare US aggregates published cash-price pages, CMS hospital machine-readable files (MRFs), and consumer-submitted prices to map what US healthcare actually costs. Patient-reported quotes and EOB allowed amounts are some of the most useful data we receive — they show what a real person was charged or quoted for a real procedure code at a real facility on a real date.

Peter Langdon · TreatCompare editor — healthcare price research

Before you send anything

  • Do not send protected health information (PHI). Redact patient name, date of birth, member ID, account number, and clinical detail before sharing a bill or EOB image.
  • We publish in aggregated, de-identified form only. Submissions help the dataset — not a personal billing dispute.
  • This page is not insurance advice, legal advice, billing advice, or medical advice.

What we are looking for

Most useful submissions

  • Cash / self-pay quote from a hospital, imaging centre or surgery centre
  • EOB allowed amount for a specific CPT code, payer and plan
  • Direct link to a CMS hospital MRF file
  • Published chargemaster or self-pay price page URL
  • Provider-direct cash-price quote (verbal or written)
  • Out-of-pocket total a patient actually paid, by CPT code

What to include with the price

  • State and facility name (or city if facility is unnamed)
  • Facility type — hospital outpatient vs imaging centre vs surgery centre
  • CPT or HCPCS code if it appears anywhere on the document
  • Whether facility fee, professional interpretation and contrast are included
  • Date the price was quoted or billed
  • Source URL, PDF, or photo of the quote (PHI redacted)

Send a US price submission

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Submissions are reviewed before publication. We do not publish identifying patient information.

How submitted prices are used

  • Verified submissions are added to the TreatCompare US procedure price record dataset and surface as a price record on the relevant procedure page (e.g. MRI cost USA, colonoscopy cost USA).
  • Each record is labelled by source type — cash quote, MRF rate, EOB allowed amount, chargemaster, or consumer-submitted — so readers can see where each number comes from.
  • Submissions help the dataset reflect what US healthcare actually costs — not just what is published. They are particularly valuable when a hospital’s MRF is missing or unreadable.
  • We do not use submissions to resolve individual billing disputes. For corrections to an existing TreatCompare listing, use report an error.

Using this data?

How TreatCompare US handles submitted prices

Updated May 2026

Main sources

  • CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR § 180)
  • CMS hospital MRF machine-readable files
  • Published independent imaging centre self-pay price pages
  • TreatCompare US consumer-submitted price records

Methodology: Submitted prices are reviewed against the source document (URL, PDF, or redacted image) before publication. Records are labelled by source type — cash quote, MRF rate, EOB allowed amount, chargemaster, or consumer-submitted — and are aggregated alongside published hospital and imaging-centre prices. We do not publish identifying patient information.

TreatCompare publishes healthcare, care-cost and treatment-pricing research for consumers, journalists, policymakers and commercial teams.

Contact TreatCompare about dataMethodology, source summaries and structured extracts: data@treatcompare.co

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