CLUSTER COMPARE-PROCEDURE-COST · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2021-01-03
US hospital cost comparison tools
These products help users compare US hospital procedure costs, quality ratings, and patient experiences. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, with only one dated entry before the index start. Traction leaders include healthScope, LibreHealth Cost Of Care Explorer, and Healthcare Cost Navigator, each with zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled
Operator · 1 open source · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01Med-Route3★27 daysliveHealthcare platform that helps users discover hospitals, compare surgical pricing, and route emergency trauma cases.
- 02healthScope0★28 days—Web app that helps users find and compare hospitals by condition, location, procedure cost, and facilities, with an AI search assistant.
- 03LibreHealth Cost Of Care Explorer0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app that lets users compare medical procedure costs, hospital ratings, and patient experiences across US hospitals.
- 04Healthcare Cost Navigator0★unknownliveWeb app that lets users search and compare U.S. hospital procedure costs and quality, with provider lookup and cost analytics.
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