Medical Price Transparency 🏥 💰

Exploring healthcare costs and price transparency across hospitals in the United States 📊

Project Overview 🎯

This repository contains tools and analysis for investigating healthcare pricing data, with a focus on:

• Hospital price transparency compliance
• Cost comparisons across medical procedures
• Cancer treatment pricing analysis
• Understanding medical billing structures
• Identifying pricing patterns and disparities

Features 🚀

• Data scraping tools for hospital pricing data
• Analysis scripts for cost comparisons
• Visualization tools for price transparency
• Database of collected healthcare pricing information
• Documentation on medical billing codes and procedures

Data Sources 📂

• Hospital price transparency files
• CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) data
• Public healthcare pricing databases
• Hospital chargemasters
• Insurance negotiated rates

Getting Started 💻

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/medical-price-transparency.git

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Analysis Examples 📈

• Cost comparison of common procedures
• Geographic pricing variations
• Insurance vs. cash pay differences
• Cancer treatment cost analysis
• Temporal price trends

Contributing 🤝

Contributions are welcome! Please read our contributing guidelines before submitting pull requests.

License 📄

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contact 📧

• GitHub Issues: Create an issue in this repository

Acknowledgments 🙏

• Healthcare price transparency advocates
• Medical billing experts
• Open source community
• Data providers and hospitals

Disclaimer ⚠️

This tool is for research and informational purposes only. Medical pricing data may vary by location, provider, and time. Always verify pricing directly with healthcare providers.