Price AtlasInteractive atlas · All states · techysurgeon.comWhat our crawler found in hospital price files
We looked for the federal price file of every short-term acute, critical access and children's hospital: 4,622 hospitals. We read 2,391 files (52%); 535 pass all seven checks.
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Nationally
| What our crawler saw | Hospitals | Share |
|---|---|---|
| We read the price file | 2,359 | 51% |
| We couldn't find the hospital's website yet | 1,087 | 24% |
| We couldn't find a price file on the hospital's site | 587 | 13% |
| The site turned away our automated request | 396 | 9% |
| The site asks automated tools not to download it | 137 | 3% |
| We couldn't read the file's format | 24 | 1% |
| Read the file; none of the procedures we look up | 16 | 0% |
| Read the file; no insurer dollar amounts for our codes | 13 | 0% |
| Read the file; prices only as percentages or formulas | 3 | 0% |
Seven checks on the files we read
| Check | Files passing |
|---|---|
| Listed in cms-hpt.txt | 100% |
| Readable, CMS template | 100% |
| Template v2.2+ | 95% |
| Updated in the last 12 months | 96% |
| Mostly dollar rates | 90% |
| Percent rates carry a $ estimate | 33% |
| Posts v3 allowed amounts | 90% |
By state
| State | Hospitals | Files we read | Share read | All 7 checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 85 | 37 | 44% | 6 |
| Alaska | 21 | 11 | 52% | 5 |
| Arizona | 86 | 44 | 51% | 0 |
| Arkansas | 77 | 36 | 47% | 7 |
| California | 326 | 135 | 41% | 57 |
| Colorado | 85 | 47 | 55% | 7 |
| Connecticut | 27 | 8 | 30% | 3 |
| Delaware | 7 | 4 | 57% | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | 4 | 57% | 0 |
| Florida | 183 | 121 | 66% | 7 |
| Georgia | 131 | 74 | 56% | 5 |
| Hawaii | 22 | 12 | 55% | 0 |
| Idaho | 43 | 27 | 63% | 12 |
| Illinois | 171 | 87 | 51% | 27 |
| Indiana | 113 | 74 | 65% | 18 |
| Iowa | 111 | 66 | 59% | 39 |
| Kansas | 131 | 75 | 57% | 45 |
| Kentucky | 90 | 51 | 57% | 22 |
| Louisiana | 112 | 38 | 34% | 9 |
| Maine | 31 | 24 | 77% | 1 |
| Maryland | 45 | 18 | 40% | 1 |
| Massachusetts | 59 | 29 | 49% | 6 |
| Michigan | 128 | 81 | 63% | 26 |
| Minnesota | 124 | 64 | 52% | 7 |
| Mississippi | 93 | 33 | 35% | 7 |
| Missouri | 103 | 61 | 59% | 13 |
| Montana | 62 | 24 | 39% | 7 |
| Nebraska | 90 | 47 | 52% | 10 |
| Nevada | 36 | 15 | 42% | 3 |
| New Hampshire | 26 | 11 | 42% | 2 |
| New Jersey | 63 | 32 | 51% | 3 |
| New Mexico | 40 | 18 | 45% | 6 |
| New York | 155 | 66 | 43% | 3 |
| North Carolina | 101 | 63 | 62% | 7 |
| North Dakota | 44 | 21 | 48% | 1 |
| Ohio | 159 | 84 | 53% | 24 |
| Oklahoma | 122 | 52 | 43% | 20 |
| Oregon | 58 | 39 | 67% | 12 |
| Pennsylvania | 154 | 97 | 63% | 17 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | 7 | 70% | 2 |
| South Carolina | 55 | 34 | 62% | 12 |
| South Dakota | 58 | 19 | 33% | 7 |
| Tennessee | 97 | 55 | 57% | 3 |
| Texas | 390 | 191 | 49% | 23 |
| Utah | 47 | 28 | 60% | 4 |
| Vermont | 14 | 11 | 79% | 0 |
| Virginia | 84 | 59 | 70% | 19 |
| Washington | 89 | 49 | 55% | 8 |
| West Virginia | 46 | 25 | 54% | 4 |
| Wisconsin | 124 | 72 | 58% | 5 |
| Wyoming | 27 | 10 | 37% | 3 |
Questions
Does a missing file mean the hospital is breaking the rule?
No. These are the results of our automated search: a file can be posted where our crawler didn't look, and some sites turn away automated tools or ask them not to download. We fetch with an honest user agent and obey robots.txt.
What are the seven checks?
(1) Listed in cms-hpt.txt; (2) Readable, CMS template; (3) Template v2.2+; (4) Updated in the last 12 months; (5) Mostly dollar rates; (6) Percent rates carry a $ estimate; (7) Posts v3 allowed amounts. They are computed from the procedure codes we read, not the whole file.
Computed from the files we parsed for the Price Atlas (the catalog v3 procedure codes we read, not the whole file). Checks: (1) the hospital lists the file in /cms-hpt.txt; (2) the file downloads and follows the CMS template; (3) template version 2.2 or later; (4) updated within the last 12 months; (5) most payer-specific rates are dollar amounts; (6) percent/algorithm rates carry a dollar estimate (v2 estimated amount or v3 median allowed); (7) v3.0 allowed-amount fields (median, 10th/90th percentile, count) are posted. Hospitals we could not read carry a status (not found, robots.txt, bot protection, time-out...): what OUR crawler saw with an honest User-Agent while obeying robots.txt, not proof of non-compliance. Checked 2026-10-05.