MyCareCost

Compare and Negotiate Healthcare Pricing
Data Licensing & API

Hospital pricing data for your product, research, or analytics

We've already done the hard work of aggregating, normalizing, and structuring pricing data from 5,000+ hospital MRF files. Access it through our API, bulk exports, or custom data pipelines.

Explore the Data

Professional account

API and data licensing accounts

Bulk exports and API access are licensed for your use case. We create partner or technical credentials after we agree on scope, geography, and delivery.

  1. 1Use “Discuss Data Access” or contact us with what you are building (product, research, or internal analytics).
  2. 2We recommend a tier, send terms, and provision access (exports, API keys, or both).
  3. 3Sign in with the partner type we assign—often “Data Licensing / API” under Partner sign in.

Evaluation access may be available for qualified teams; mention your timeline when you reach out.

Prefer email first? Use the contact or demo buttons elsewhere on this page—we respond with next steps and account setup.

What's in the Data

5,000+

Hospitals across all 50 states

3 Price Types

Gross charges, cash, negotiated ranges

CPT / DRG / HCPCS

Standard medical code systems

All data sourced from CMS-mandated machine-readable files — published by hospitals, verifiable by anyone.

Who Uses This

Built for Teams That Need Structured Data

Whether you're building a health tech product, conducting academic research, or running healthcare analytics — we provide clean, structured pricing data so you can focus on your work instead of data wrangling.

Health Tech Companies

Power your product with real hospital pricing data. Build price comparison tools, cost estimators, or transparency features without aggregating MRF files yourself.

Researchers & Academics

Study price variance, market dynamics, and the effects of transparency policy. Structured datasets with consistent schema across thousands of hospitals.

Analytics & Consulting

Feed hospital pricing data into your analytics platform. Build market reports, competitive analyses, and trend visualizations for healthcare clients.

What You Get

Clean Data, Flexible Access

We handle the messy work of parsing thousands of different MRF file formats, normalizing procedure codes, and structuring the data into a consistent schema. You get clean output.

Bulk Data Exports

Download structured pricing data in CSV, JSON, or Parquet formats. Filter by geography, hospital, procedure code, or price type. Updated continuously as hospitals refresh their files.

RESTful API

Programmatic access to hospital pricing data with comprehensive documentation. Search by procedure, hospital, geography, or price type. Paginated responses with consistent schema.

5,000+ Hospital Coverage

Pricing data aggregated from machine-readable files published by over 5,000 hospitals nationwide. Gross charges, cash/self-pay prices, and published negotiated rate ranges.

Geographic & Procedure Filtering

Slice the data any way you need — by state, metro area, ZIP code, procedure code (CPT, DRG, HCPCS), hospital type, or price type. Get exactly the subset your analysis requires.

SLA Guarantees

Enterprise-grade uptime guarantees, rate limits scaled to your usage, and dedicated support. We understand that your product depends on reliable data access.

Custom Data Pipelines

Need the data delivered in a specific format, on a specific schedule, or enriched with additional fields? We build custom pipelines for enterprise and research clients.

Platform Capabilities

API & Export Specifications

From one-time bulk exports for research projects to always-on API access for production applications — we have access tiers that fit your use case.

Volume-based pricing. Academic and non-profit discounts available. Custom SLAs for enterprise clients.

  • Bulk exports in CSV, JSON, and Parquet formats
  • RESTful API with comprehensive endpoint documentation
  • Hospital-published pricing data across 5,000+ facilities in all 50 states
  • Gross charges, cash/self-pay prices, and published negotiated rate ranges
  • Filter by geography (state, metro, ZIP), procedure code, hospital, or price type
  • CMS quality ratings included for hospital-level analysis
  • SLA guarantees for uptime, latency, and data freshness
  • Custom data pipelines and enrichment available for enterprise clients

Getting Started

From Inquiry to Data in Days, Not Months

1

Define Your Needs

Tell us what you're building, which geographies and procedures matter, and how you want to receive the data. We'll recommend the right access tier and format.

2

Get Access

Receive your API key or first bulk export. Full documentation, sample queries, and schema references included. Most clients are running queries within a day.

3

Build & Scale

Integrate our data into your product, research, or analytics workflow. Scale your usage as your needs grow — we handle the infrastructure.

Data Provenance & Integrity

Every record in our dataset is traceable to a specific hospital-published machine-readable file mandated under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule. We do not estimate, extrapolate, or model prices. What hospitals publish is what you get.

5,000+

Source hospitals

50

States covered

100%

Hospital-published

0

Estimated prices

Data includes gross charges, discounted cash/self-pay prices, and published negotiated rate ranges. We do not have insurer-specific negotiated rates or claims data. All prices are hospital-published and federally mandated.

Example Use Cases

What People Build with Our Data

Price Comparison Tools

Consumer-facing or B2B applications that let users search and compare hospital prices. Power your product with real data instead of estimates.

Academic Research

Study the effects of price transparency regulation, geographic price variance, or the relationship between hospital pricing and quality outcomes.

Market Intelligence

Build competitive analyses, market reports, and trend dashboards for healthcare consulting clients. Structured data that feeds directly into your analytics stack.

Cost Estimation Models

Train ML models on real hospital pricing data. Build cost prediction, episode-of-care estimation, or geographic pricing analysis tools.

Ready to access the data?

Tell us what you're building and we'll recommend the right access tier. Most clients go from first conversation to running queries in under a week.

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Erik Saltsgaver · Founder, MyCareCost ·