Hospital Price Transparency Database
We’re excited to announce the release of a new Hospital Price Transparency (HPT) Database for use in research, public policy, advocacy, and more.
Standardized Hospital Pricing Data
The original hospital-posted data has been standardized and consolidated into a clean CSV format, enabling analysis across individual environments. Supporting documentation details the cleaning methods and field definitions.
The HPT Database provides robust data for $10,000, with discounts available to nonprofits, government entities, academic institutions, and researchers.
The HPT Database includes:
Who Can Benefit from the HPT Database?
The HPT Database can support a variety of organizations and researchers working to better understand health care prices, market trends, and affordability.
Evaluating cost drivers and regulatory impact.
Performing advanced modeling with standardized data.
Highlighting price disparities and educating the public.
How We Clean and Prepare the Data
Hospital price transparency files can vary significantly in format and structure. CIVHC standardizes and transforms the source data into a consistent, analysis-ready format that makes it easier to work with and compare.
Original files are run through a structured conversion process to align the data to consistent layouts and standards.
Code information, payer information, and standard charge fields are separated from nested tables.
Nested structures are expanded so each negotiated rate appears on its own row with clear labels.
The transformed data is exported into a consistent CSV format, regardless of the original file structure.