TrueHospitalCost

Data Sources & Methodology

Every price on this site comes from a machine-readable price file published by the hospital itself under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency rule (schema version 3.0.0). Hospitals announce their files in a public index (a cms-hpt.txt file); we download each file, keep only a small catalog of consumer procedures identified by CPT code, and store the list price, discounted cash price, and lowest and highest negotiated rates. Money is stored as exact cents from the file. Nothing is estimated, and no price is published here that is not in the hospital's own file.

Hospitals covered

HospitalCityProcedures pricedFile dateSource file
Allen County Regional HospitalIola, KS38December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Anderson County HospitalGarnett, KS38December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Hedrick Medical CenterChillicothe, MO38December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Saint Luke's East HospitalLee's Summit, MO31December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Saint Luke's Hospital Crittenton Children's CenterKansas City, MO6December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas CityKansas City, MO32December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Saint Luke's North HospitalKansas City, MO31December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Saint Luke's South HospitalOverland Park, KS31December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Saint Luke’s North Hospital – SmithvilleSmithville, MO31December 31, 2025Hospital's file
Wright Memorial HospitalTrenton, MO38December 31, 2025Hospital's file

Known gaps, stated plainly

Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City's file contains no lab prices identified by CPT code, so lab procedures have no price rows for that hospital — its page says so rather than guessing. Smaller facilities publish fewer coded procedures; Crittenton Children's Center's file yields only a handful. Where a hospital's file contains several variant rows for one procedure (for example, modifier or portable versions), we keep the hospital's base item so the figure matches the file's main listing.

The University of Kansas Health System publishes the other CMS file shape (a very large spreadsheet-style file). Support for that shape is planned; until then those hospitals are not listed as covered.