Benchmark price
Turn your AI agent into a medical-bill negotiation advocate — an open-source playbook of skills, letters, and verified patient rights. Pay what's fair, nothing more.
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Establish the fair price for billed services using Medicare rates, the hospital's own transparency file, and regional benchmarks. Use after review-bill, before making any offer.
SKILL.md
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Benchmark the price
Goal: for every significant line on the bill, a table showing what people
with leverage pay — so the user's offer is a documented number, not a plea.
Full tool details and URLs: knowledge/benchmarks.md.
Steps
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Pick the lines that matter — the top charges covering ~90% of the bill. Don't benchmark $12 line items.
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Medicare rate per CPT — the floor and the universal reference. Use the CMS lookup tools per
knowledge/benchmarks.md, localized to the user's area. -
The hospital's own prices — find its machine-readable standard charges file (try
<hospital site>/standardcharges, the site's price transparency page, or the aggregators listed in the knowledge doc). Pull, for each CPT: the cash price and the payer-negotiated rate range. This is the strongest possible anchor: their own published numbers. -
Regional benchmarks — FAIR Health Consumer / Healthcare Bluebook for the same codes + zip, as a sanity check and a second citation.
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Build the table in
case.md:CPT Billed Medicare Their cash price Insurers pay Fair target -
Set the target and the ask. Default fair-target logic: the lowest defensible anchor that exists in their documents — usually their cash price or the low end of their negotiated range; if neither is findable, 1.5–2x Medicare. State the total target and the opening offer (open below target, leave room) in
case.mdfor thestrategyskill.
If the hospital publishes no usable file, record that fact — noncompliance with the transparency rule is itself leverage ("I attempted to verify these charges against your standard-charges file, which I could not locate; CMS requires…").