Hospital price-transparency files, graded
US hospitals must publish machine-readable files of their standard charges. This site grades each published file — never the hospital — on whether it can be retrieved, parsed, and interpreted, with every finding citing the rule or schema requirement it rests on.
This cohort covers 6 machine-readable files, discovered from hospital cms-hpt.txt documents and collected in one identified run on 2026-08-14. 6 of 6 targets produced a verified body; 6 were graded and 0 recorded as not graded with the reason stated. The registry grows by discovering more hospitals' TXT documents; nothing here is a sample of hospitals as a class.
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Checked and recorded, not graded
Targets this cohort reviewed but did not grade stay visible, with how far the review went and what it found. An absent or unreachable TXT at one origin is not evidence about the hospital's publication.
- Oregon Health and Science University (
discovery_reviewed): the cms-hpt.txt entry points at a .zip archive; this cohort's implemented profile inspects CMS hospital JSON v3 documents only, and grading a non-JSON publication against a JSON profile would measure the wrong thing. Reviewed 2026-08-13: cms-hpt.txt retrieved and parsed; the single mrf-url ends in .zip. - www.massgeneral.org (origin, not a graded publisher) (
txt_fetch_failed): the cms-hpt.txt retrieval ended in a network error at this origin; no MRF URL was obtained, and a failed probe of one corporate origin is not evidence about the hospital's publication. Reviewed 2026-08-13: `mrf-honest discover` attempt recorded in the local discovery registry. - www.sutterhealth.org (origin, not a graded publisher) (
txt_fetch_failed): the cms-hpt.txt retrieval ended in a network error at this origin; no MRF URL was obtained, and a failed probe of one corporate origin is not evidence about the hospital's publication. Reviewed 2026-08-13: `mrf-honest discover` attempt recorded in the local discovery registry. - www.clevelandclinic.org (origin, not a graded publisher) (
txt_not_found_at_origin): this origin returned HTTP 404 for cms-hpt.txt; the conventional TXT belongs at the hospital's selected MRF-hosting origin, which may be elsewhere, so this records only that this origin did not serve one. Reviewed 2026-08-13: `mrf-honest discover` attempt recorded in the local discovery registry.
How grading works, and what it deliberately does not claim · machine-readable comparison · written-up findings with evidence
A grade describes one published file under one stated policy on one date. It does not rank hospitals, price care, or determine compliance with 45 CFR part 180, and it is not the official CMS validator.