Hospitals are required by law to publish what they charge — then they bury it in files no patient could ever read. Phanera digs out the real prices and lays them side by side, so you can shop before you go.
See the prices →In 2021, a federal rule (45 CFR 180) forced every U.S. hospital to publish its full price list — including the secret rates it negotiates with each insurer.
It worked, technically. The files exist. But they're 600-megabyte spreadsheets with millions of cryptic rows, posted where no patient will ever find them. The prices are public but not visible.
Phanera — Greek for "in plain sight" — pulls those files, decodes the medical codes into plain English, and lays the prices side by side. So before you book an MRI or a colonoscopy, you can do the one thing the system never wanted you to: shop.