Turquoise Health
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price comparison
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Turquoise Health
Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies
turquoise.health#hospital prices#medical price transparency#procedure costs#insurance prices
How HN took it
9 positive, 35 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 51 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 7 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, much needed transparency tool.
From 2 comments
Great solution. I hope this will make asking about costs at the hospital more normal! I once went to a doctor for vaccinations before traveling. The nurse said "You need X, I…
curiousllama on HNOh wow, so a "Tonsil Removal (Patient Under 12)" procedure has a huge price-range: $298.00 $7,830.76 $7,299.85 $10,243.23 $13,964.19 --- How are these even comparable?
k3liutZu on HN
Objections
Searching by zip code returns results from across the country.
From 1 comment
This is great (and totally unfortunate that it needs to exist in the US), thanks for building it. One issue: it looks like the search is not respecting the zip code for me if I…
mtalantikite on HN
Averages shown instead of medians, with large outliers.
From 1 comment
Suggestion: I hope I didn't completely miss something, but the site seems to put average prices for procedures all over the place when the median price would actually be much…
smueller1234 on HN
Requests
Show insurance-specific prices after setting a plan.
From 1 comment
It would be nice if I could set my insurance plan once, and then see the cash and insured prices in the search results.
hedora on HN
Provide an API.
From 1 comment
Very cool! We've been working an app that is looking for this exact type of data. Do you have an API or plans for making an API for this?
yding on HN
Questions
How is the data kept current?
From 1 comment
This seems to be the GoodRx of medical procedures. This is tremendously helpful. How do you plan to keep the data current? Also, in the US, is a patient realistically able to…
subhro on HN
Why are the price differences so large?
From 2 comments
Why are the prices so insane? Where do the money go? I'm from Eastern Europe so of course the prices would be different, but by an order of a magnitude at the minimum seems…
rplnt on HNIt would be nice to be able to see the lowest & highest prices & other stats. I can manually find the lowest price by sorting by price but I can't seem to reverse it to show the…
KingMachiavelli on HN
Alternatives named
price.hospital
From 1 comment
A number of people, including me, have been building similar things, see http://price.hospital The problem seems to be figuring out a revenue model, and translating all the…
SteveCoast on HN
GoodRx
From 1 comment
This seems to be the GoodRx of medical procedures. This is tremendously helpful. How do you plan to keep the data current? Also, in the US, is a patient realistically able to…
subhro on HN