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Show HN: What 482 hospitals charge vs. what insurers pay, from their own files

原文链接 ↗ ·curatedmcp
US hospitals must publish a machine-readable file of their prices, including the rate they've negotiated with each insurer. The files are huge (one is 36GB), in four formats and often messy, so almost nobody reads them. I built a crawler that finds each hospital's official file and pulls out 29 common services. Across 482 hospitals: a moderate ER visit is listed at a median $1,285 while insurers pay $288; a metabolic panel is listed at $207 while insurers pay $11.46. To keep it honest: only per-

五维评分

付费意愿
35
需求真实度
55
个人可落地
45
竞争空间
20
新鲜度
40

AI 分析

痛点:美国医院价格透明文件巨大、格式杂乱且难以解析,患者和雇主无法直接比较医院标价与保险实际支付价。

目标用户:患者、雇主福利负责人、保险经纪人、保险科技公司、记者与医疗研究者。

证据:The files are huge (one is 36GB), in four formats and often messy, so almost nobody reads them. Across 482 hospitals: a moderate ER visit is listed at a median $1,285 while insurers pay $288; a metabolic panel is listed at $207 while insurers pay $11.46.

变现:B2B数据API或订阅服务,面向雇主、保险科技、患者导航平台;白标比价页面与线索导流;定制报告。

MVP:2周内选1个州、20家医院,覆盖10项常见服务,做可搜索网页和简单API,提供价格对比邮件提醒或嵌入小部件,先向本地雇主/保险经纪人验证付费意愿。

竞品:Turquoise Health、Healthcare Bluebook、Castlight Health、New Choice Health、Hospital Price Transparency tools

摘要:作者爬取482家医院的价格透明文件,对比29项服务的标价与保险支付价,例如急诊中位标价1285美元而保险付288美元,代谢panel标价207美元而保险付11.46美元。文件巨大(单个36GB)、四种格式且杂乱,几乎无人读取。HN热度低(5分1评论),无明确付费意愿证据,且已有多个价格透明竞品。