# Healthcare price transparency data

> Healthcare price data and tools for employers, brokers, providers and developers, plus a free price lookup for patients. Coming soon from US Health.io.

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US health insurers now publish what they pay every provider. We turn those files into clean, comparable prices, with a portal, reports and an API for organisations, and a free price lookup for patients. Everything here is coming soon; join early access to hear first.

## Who it's for

- [Price transparency data for employers](https://ushealth.io/for/employers.md) (Employers): Benchmark your network's rates, steer employees to high-value providers and renew with evidence.
- [Compare carrier networks on negotiated rates](https://ushealth.io/for/brokers.md) (Brokers & consultants): Compare carriers side by side on the services each client uses most, not on headline discounts.
- [Payer rate benchmarking for providers](https://ushealth.io/for/providers.md) (Providers): See your rates against the market by payer and code, and find the services you're underpaid for.
- [Healthcare price transparency API and data](https://ushealth.io/for/developers.md) (Developers & researchers): Normalised negotiated rates by API or bulk extract, for products and research.
- [Why comparing medical prices saves you money](https://ushealth.io/for/patients.md) (Patients): When comparing prices pays off, how to do it, and the free price lookup that's coming.

## What we're building

- **Price lookup** (Free, for patients and the public, coming soon): Search a procedure, pick your insurance plan or cash, and compare prices at providers near you.
- **Web portal** (For employers, brokers and providers, coming soon): Compare negotiated rates by procedure, provider, insurer and market, and export what you find.
- **Reports** (Benchmarks and custom analysis, coming soon): Ready-made benchmark reports for your market and plans, or an analysis built around your question.
- **API & bulk data** (For developers and researchers, coming soon): Clean, normalised negotiated rates by API or as bulk extracts, linked to providers.

## Why comparing prices matters

- **Up to 40×**: difference in price for the same service within a single metro area ([Health Care Cost Institute, Past the Healthy Marketplace Index](https://healthcostinstitute.org/hcci-research/past-the-healthy-marketplace-index-exploring-actual-prices-paid-for-specific-services-by-metro-area))
- **$562 – $9,691**: negotiated rate for an outpatient colonoscopy in the Chicago area, depending on where it was done ([Trilliant Health, 2025 price transparency report](https://www.trillianthealth.com/market-research/reports/2025-price-transparency))
- **67.5% lower**: median colonoscopy price at an ambulatory surgery center than at a hospital outpatient department ([Trilliant Health, 2025 price transparency report](https://www.trillianthealth.com/market-research/reports/2025-price-transparency))
- **Since July 2022**: health insurers and plans have had to publish the rates they negotiate with providers ([CMS, Transparency in Coverage final rule fact sheet](https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/transparency-coverage-final-rule-fact-sheet-cms-9915-f))

## Get early access

Tell us who you are and what you'd like to compare, and we'll be in touch as each product opens. [Request early access](mailto:hello@ushealth.io?subject=Early%20access%3A%20US%20Health.io) (email to hello@ushealth.io; no pricing yet).