[egillie]

Same, I've been mapping out CA average prices at 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]

Are you scraping this or just visiting each site manually and getting the machine readable data? Cool stuff!!

[egillie]

California collected all of their hospitals' data at 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]

Woah, I'm a CA resident and also surprised and happy. Are you seeing a lot of non-compliance?

[egillie]

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]

Would be fun to chat - my email is in the profile, tried finding yours...