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Patients have an increasing number
of options at their disposal to shop
around for surgery's best prices. Here
are a few places they can search and
comparison-shop for outpatient pro-
cedures, and where you can post
prices to attract the self-paying crowd.
— Daniel Cook
• clearhealthcosts.com A search
engine that uses reported pricing from
patients and providers to relay the cost
of procedures performed in New York City and its suburbs, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Philadelphia, with more cities to be added soon.
• pratter.us A secure portal where hospitals and surgery centers upload their prices for
procedures, providing access to self-pay patients. The portal provides links to participat-
ing facilities' homepages to direct interested individuals.
• ineedasurgery.com Connects both insured and uninsured patients with participat-
ing surgery centers nationwide, which agree to provide the patients' surgeries at pre-
arranged, all-inclusive prices.
• medibid.com Gives elective surgery patients who are willing to pay out of pocket the
ability to choose from a range of physicians and hospitals bidding, eBay-style, to provide
the surgery they're seeking.
COMPARISON SHOP
Surgical Pricing Search Engines Pop Up Online
z ONE-TOUCH SHOPPING Savvy patients are
searching online for surgical deals.
