About ClearPrice Health

What we publish

Every dollar value on the site comes from a hospital’s own machine-readable file, required under 45 CFR §180.50. We do not model, estimate, or crowdsource any prices. The methodology page documents the exact pipeline; the data lineage for any number on the site can be traced back to specific source rows.

Read the methodology, editorial policy, and FAQ for the full picture.

Who publishes this

ClearPrice Health is published by Generative Inspired Inc.. Editorial questions and data corrections go to clear-price-corrections@geninspired.com.

Authors

• Ashwin Pingali

  Co-Founder & Director of Client Solutions, Generative Inspired Inc.

  Co-Founder and Director of Client Solutions at Generative Inspired. Based in Colorado. Writes on hospital price transparency, the CMS MRF format, and aggregation of CMS-mandated price data.

What we are not

Plain identity claims, so there is no ambiguity about how to read the site.

• · Not a clinician or care provider. We do not diagnose, treat, recommend, or rule out any procedure for any person.
• · Not a price quote engine. Figures here are aggregates from hospital-published regulatory filings — not estimates, pre-authorisations, or guarantees of what an individual patient will be billed.
• · Not insurance advice. Coverage depends on your specific plan; a payer appearing in a hospital’s MRF does not equal in-network acceptance for your visit.
• · Not advertising. No hospital, payer, or insurer pays for placement, ranking, or removal on this site.
• · Not a display-ad publisher. We run no banner ads, no sponsored content, no affiliate links, and no programmatic ad slots. (We do load minimal visit-counting analytics — see “Analytics” below for the honest list.)

What we will not do

Action commitments. If we ever change one of these, the editorial policy page will say so explicitly and the change will be dated.

• · Give medical advice. We will not recommend, endorse, or steer any reader toward a specific procedure, hospital, or treatment plan.
• · Model, estimate, or crowdsource prices. Every figure is a number a hospital published itself in its machine-readable file — never an inference from elsewhere.
• · Take payment to influence rankings or content. No money from any hospital, payer, insurer, or third party elevates, hides, reorders, or alters any data on the site.
• · Sell visitor data to advertisers or data brokers. We do not commercialise browsing data. (We do use Google Analytics for aggregate visit counts; Google retains that data per its own platform terms — see “Analytics” below.)
• · Present unverified figures as fact. If our parser cannot read a hospital’s MRF, that hospital is omitted from the site rather than guessed at.

Analytics

Honest disclosure of what loads in your browser and what each tool collects. We don’t run a cookie consent banner because the answer below is short enough to read in 30 seconds.