What is NC Health Cost?
As of October 2020, the CMS Price Transparency Initiative was signed into law under section 2718(e) of the Public Health Service Act. This law states that each hospital must now post the standard charges and negotiated rates for their provided services in a machine readable format on a public domain. We aggregated these data and provided analytics to put on display the cost of health in North Carolina.
Problem
While these data are required to be submitted they are not required to be submitted to a centralized location or in a standard formats (CSV, JSON, EXCEL) or structure (same metadata).
Solution
This work solves the problem by querying, structuring, and aggregating all of North Carolina's hospital data assets from their base websites listed on the North Carolina Hosptial Association into a centralized location. It is import to note that not every hospital is listed on the website.
Data Profiles
To get it out to the people we provide all of the data profiles and metadata for each found hospital's standard service charges. If you want to analyze these data yourself this is where you should start. Feel free to reach out if you are looking for a specific dataset or have any questions.
Self Service Analytics
We provide a user interface for people to do self discover on these data. An example question we try to answer is when comparing Duke Health to UNC Health who has negotiated cheaper rates with the largest Health Insurers (AETNA, CIGNA, BCBSNC, HUMANA).
Downloads
All data is updated on a monthly basis and can be found as a zip file at the link below for FREE. If you plan to reference these data in any of your works please reference the repository.
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