Ask HN: Glassdoor for Medical Bills?
I&#x27;ve had this exact idea. I made it as a hackathon project but haven&#x27;t worked on it ever since. One of the things I wanted to do was to use publicly-available treatment cost data (I think states like California require reporting of this) and aggregate it by type of treatment to allow users to comparison-shop between medical providers in their area.<p>The issue I was facing (and the reason I stopped working on this project) was the lack of standard, openly-available medical codes, since most hospitals mark treatments with CPT codes, which are proprietary and require a license to use in software. If anyone has any solutions to translate these codes to human-readable names without licensing the entire set of codes from the American Medical Association, I&#x27;d be open to hearing those ideas.