CMSgov/price-transparency-guide
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The technical implementation guide for the tri-departmental price transparency rule.
11 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2021-04-14 · latest 2025-10-10
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…the numbers are generally accurate. https://www.cms.gov/priorities/healthplan-price-transparency... https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide
comment by nradov · 2025-10-10 · in The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding' -
…follow the format described there, and most importantly, reporting values that are accurate. [1] https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide
comment by axutio · 2023-03-30 · in New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong -
The author has replied to me, and shared these great examples of transparent prices: https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/tree/mast... Along with this fantastic guide: https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide I…
comment by logicallee · 2023-03-29 · in New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong -
…to strike a balance, but I can't have both. Please take a look at the CMS Price Transparency Guide https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide and familiarize yourself with the schema. You can also take a look at the federal ruling:…
comment by sl-dolt · 2023-03-29 · in New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong -
I'm the author. Take an example like this https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/discussio... I don't know how closely you've worked with this data -- you clearly have some kind of expertise -- but how do you explain this? The…
comment by sl-dolt · 2023-03-29 · in New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong -
…themselves. All we can do is point out when we’ve found rates/patterns that don’t make sense. E.g. https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide/discussio...
comment by sl-dolt · 2023-03-29 · in New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong -
…what we see in the CSV files. The data dumps have to comply with some CMS guidelines set out here: https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide
comment by sl-dolt · 2022-09-06 · in Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices -
…effect July 1 2022. Look up price transparency by CMS (the data will be published in this format: https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide ) Note: the data being published by payors in machine readable format (MRF) is MASSIVE -…
comment by shad0wfax · 2022-07-07 · in I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to -
…machine readable files containing negotiated rates by provider and procedure code by 2022-01-01: https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide
comment by ttamk · 2021-08-22 · in The prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers for patient services -
…general requirements, as well as providing details on specific situations. From the main project @ https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide Section: Overview > All machine-readable files must [...] made available to the public…
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