Case study · 07
Hospital Price Transparency Platform
Hospitals are federally required to publish their prices, but the filings are multi-gigabyte files no patient could ever read. We built the pipeline and platform that turned them into thousands of cited, human-readable price pages.
The objective
Federal law requires every hospital to publish machine-readable price files. In practice, those files are enormous, inconsistent, and unreadable. It's transparency that no actual patient can use, and existing comparison sites fill the gap with estimates and modeled averages nobody can verify.
The strategy
We built the machine that did the reading. An automated pipeline discovered each hospital's filing, parsed whatever format it arrived in, normalized it against a quality rubric, and published only what passed. Every page cited its source document and date, structured so both search engines and AI assistants could verify rather than guess. The architecture was deliberately lean (serverless database, object storage, scheduled jobs) so a national dataset refreshed continuously without a team behind it. The platform has since been retired, with a public teardown documenting how it worked.
How it worked
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