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Comment by subhro | Hacker News Reader

This seems to be the GoodRx of medical procedures. This is tremendously helpful.

How do you plan to keep the data current?

Also, in the US, is a patient realistically able to say, “Hospital X is able to get my compound fracture surgery done for 65% less. Match it or I walk”, especially when insurances have negotiated rates.

Or is this only useful for people with no insurance?

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Hey man! This is a great comment. I work with Turquoise. We're actually building some stuff where patients can collectively bargain outside their insurance. But for now, it's most useful to people with insurance that see that one hospital down the road has a lower rate for their given insurance. (EG, the blue cross rate is better the next town over). We're going to make it easier to filter for insurance shortly.

Also, very useful for cash pay.

This is an amazing product and I congratulate you on your launch! Like the parent, I'm also really curious how you plan to update the data and also wanted to ask how you normalized the data.

I ask because this space has always been interesting for me. Funny enough, I helped build almost the exact same thing at a hackathon (https://devpost.com/software/liform), but the project didn't pan out after that due to our team's lack of medical knowledge. So I'd love to learn from your experience processing this data into a usable form.

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