Equity Health AI aggregates, normalizes, and surfaces pricing data across hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers — so every patient can compare costs for the 20 most common outpatient procedures, for free.
Federal law now requires hospitals and ASCs to publish machine-readable price files — but raw data is buried in multi-gigabyte CSVs with inconsistent formats, making it useless to patients and costly to analyze.
Even with CMS transparency rules in effect, fewer than 25% of hospitals publish fully compliant, usable pricing files. Patients are left guessing.
Procedure names, billing codes, and payer categories vary across every institution. There is no common language — until now.
73 million Americans have received an unexpected medical bill. Price discovery before care is the proven intervention that reduces this outcome.
Current solutions target enterprise buyers — payers, employers, and benefits teams. The patient, who ultimately bears the cost, has no free, accessible resource.
A purpose-built AI pipeline ingests raw hospital and ASC transparency files, normalizes them into a unified FHIR-aligned schema, and delivers clean, comparable pricing to patients and API consumers.
Automated crawlers collect machine-readable price files from 6,000+ CMS-regulated facilities. Files are ingested into AWS S3 and catalogued by state, facility type, and update cadence.
Generative AI maps heterogeneous procedure names and billing codes to a canonical set of 20 outpatient categories, aligned to HL7 FHIR R4 resource types.
Normalized records land in Amazon Aurora (structured pricing) and OpenSearch (full-text and geo-spatial queries), enabling sub-second lookups by ZIP code, procedure, and payer.
A consumer web app and a developer-grade REST/FHIR API surface comparable prices to patients, benefits platforms, and enterprise health system buyers.
Focused on the procedures that account for the majority of scheduled outpatient spend — where price comparison drives the clearest patient savings.
Equity Health AI is a pre-launch startup building toward a focused regional debut across Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York before expanding nationally.
Equity Health AI LLC incorporated in New Hampshire
equityhealth.ai registered and in production
Cloud infrastructure credits and support secured
FHIR-aligned data pipeline and API spec complete
Raising to fund engineering and East Coast data coverage
Consumer app and API live with partner health systems
Consumer access is permanently free. Revenue comes from B2B partners who benefit from a more cost-aware patient population.
Any patient can search, compare, and share procedure costs at no cost — now and always. No login required for basic search.
Insurers, benefits platforms, and EHR vendors license our normalized pricing data via a FHIR-compliant REST API with SLA-backed uptime and refresh SLAs.
Hospitals and ASCs purchase competitive intelligence dashboards showing how their published rates compare to regional peers — driving transparency-led marketing.
Self-insured employers and TPAs receive procedure-specific pricing benchmarks for their employee populations and claims cost management programs.
Built on AWS with healthcare interoperability standards at every layer — designed to scale from three states to fifty.
Equity Health AI is founder-led, with deep hands-on expertise in the exact domains this problem requires.
20+ years building data platforms at the intersection of healthcare, cloud infrastructure, and AI. Led engineering on FHIR/HL7 interoperability systems, population health platforms, and genomics data pipelines across enterprise health systems.
Brings deep technical credibility in exactly the stack required to normalize and productize healthcare pricing data at scale.
We're building the team
We are actively recruiting a co-founder with enterprise healthcare sales experience, and building an advisory board of clinical, policy, and payer experts.
If you have domain expertise in health system revenue cycle, payer contracting, or benefits technology — we'd like to hear from you.
The CMS Hospital Price Transparency rule (effective 2021) and the Transparency in Coverage rule (2022) created a legal mandate — and a data goldmine — that no consumer product has fully exploited.
CMS enforcement penalties increased dramatically in 2023, driving compliance rates upward and expanding our data universe every quarter.
Our initial market is the East Coast, where population density and high insurance cost variability make price comparison most immediately actionable for patients.
We're raising a seed round, building partnerships with East Coast health systems, and recruiting. If any of that fits — reach out.