About BaseRate Health

BaseRate Health is an independent healthcare price transparency research index. Our mission is to make hospital pricing across the United States verifiable, comparable, and understandable for patients, employers, and researchers before care is scheduled or paid.

Under federal Hospital Price Transparency regulations (45 CFR § 180), hospitals publish machine-readable files detailing negotiated commercial insurance rates and discounted self-pay cash prices. We cryptographically hash, clean, and benchmark those public disclosures alongside CMS Medicare fee schedules, CMS Hospital Care Compare clinical quality metrics, IRS Form 990 Schedule H charity-care filings, and nearby NPI-registered outpatient facilities.

BaseRate Health is an independent public-record resource and is not affiliated with any hospital system, commercial health insurer, or government agency. Review our Methodology and our Hospital Compliance & Data Correction Policy.