MedRates Hospital Price Transparency

Query real US hospital prices — negotiated insurance rates, cash discounts, and gross charges — from CMS-mandated machine-readable files.

Base URL: https://data.medrates.fyi

All endpoints return JSON. No API key is required for basic use (see Authentication for higher rate limits).

Quick Start

The fastest way to answer "how much does X cost?" is the NLP search:

curl -X POST https://data.medrates.fyi/api/search/nlp/grouped \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "brain MRI near San Jose with Blue Cross PPO"}'

For exact code lookups with multi-hospital price comparison: