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A number of people, including me, have been building similar things, see http://price.hospital http://price.hospital The problem seems to be figuring out a rev

A number of people, including me, have been building similar things, see http://price.hospital http://price.hospital The problem seems to be figuring out a revenue model, and translating all the medical terms in to human.

egillie 6y ago
Same, I've been mapping out CA average prices at http://hospitalprices-env.eba-r2yhwdcw.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/common-procedures/ http://hospitalprices-env.eba-r2yhwdcw.us-west-1.elasticbean... Comparing just the price of a hip replacement is difficult, because there are so many other services that will bundled in with a hip replacement (anesthesia etc) that may not be represented in the service price alone. The "average cost by diagnosis code a patient comes in with" transparency requirement is an attempt at solving that, but doesn't differentiate between insurance plans. Also, I love OpenStreetMap, thanks for your work on that!
- technics256 6y ago
  Are you scraping this or just visiting each site manually and getting the machine readable data? Cool stuff!!
  - egillie 6y ago
    California collected all of their hospitals' data at https://oshpd.ca.gov/data-and-reports/cost-transparency/hospital-chargemasters/ https://oshpd.ca.gov/data-and-reports/cost-transparency/hosp... The average prices for common procedures is on the 1045 sheet I have my gripes with California but I love that they did this
    - technics256 6y ago
      Woah, I'm a CA resident and also surprised and happy. Are you seeing a lot of non-compliance?
      - egillie 6y ago
        Compliance seems pretty good. The ones I haven't imported are because they're using an unusual format. Compliance on the new 2021 rule about payer-negotiated charges seems very spotty though.
- SteveCoast 6y ago
  Would be fun to chat - my email is in the profile, tried finding yours...
ageitgey 6y ago
For us, the revenue model isn't this site itself. It's other work we do in the industry - this just helps us get notice and leads to the other things we can build on top of this data in combination with other data. I'd be happy to chat more about this if you were ever interested. Side note - I'm a long, long time OSM fan and contributor. Thanks!

egillie 6y ago

Same, I've been mapping out CA average prices at http://hospitalprices-env.eba-r2yhwdcw.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/common-procedures/ http://hospitalprices-env.eba-r2yhwdcw.us-west-1.elasticbean... Comparing just the price of a hip replacement is difficult, because there are so many other services that will bundled in with a hip replacement (anesthesia etc) that may not be represented in the service price alone. The "average cost by diagnosis code a patient comes in with" transparency requirement is an attempt at solving that, but doesn't differentiate between insurance plans. Also, I love OpenStreetMap, thanks for your work on that!

technics256 6y ago
Are you scraping this or just visiting each site manually and getting the machine readable data? Cool stuff!!
- egillie 6y ago
  California collected all of their hospitals' data at https://oshpd.ca.gov/data-and-reports/cost-transparency/hospital-chargemasters/ https://oshpd.ca.gov/data-and-reports/cost-transparency/hosp... The average prices for common procedures is on the 1045 sheet I have my gripes with California but I love that they did this
  - technics256 6y ago
    Woah, I'm a CA resident and also surprised and happy. Are you seeing a lot of non-compliance?
    - egillie 6y ago
      Compliance seems pretty good. The ones I haven't imported are because they're using an unusual format. Compliance on the new 2021 rule about payer-negotiated charges seems very spotty though.
SteveCoast 6y ago
Would be fun to chat - my email is in the profile, tried finding yours...

ageitgey 6y ago

For us, the revenue model isn't this site itself. It's other work we do in the industry - this just helps us get notice and leads to the other things we can build on top of this data in combination with other data. I'd be happy to chat more about this if you were ever interested. Side note - I'm a long, long time OSM fan and contributor. Thanks!