The mission
Make what care costs something anyone can look up
The medical billing system is opaque by design. That complexity hides real money, and it is your money.
We work only for the person holding the bill. Nobody else pays us, not a hospital and not an insurer, so our incentives point one way: find what you were overcharged and get it taken off.
Doing that work well meant building the rate corpus behind it, and that turned out to be the second half of the mission. Hospitals are required to publish what they have agreed to accept, so the prices are already public. Getting them in a usable form is not: the established vendors put that data behind six-figure contracts and a sales cycle, which prices out most of the people who would do something useful with it.
We think that is backwards. The same corpus we audit bills against is licensed on its own, at a published price, so a broker, a researcher, or a small employer can afford to check a number before they act on it. Healthcare cannot get more efficient while the facts about what it charges stay this expensive to reach.