Sam Daly

Health Billing

Procedure + insurance → compare SF places

Where could you get this done?

Choose procedures and your Covered California coverage. We’ll list San Francisco hospitals that publish prices for them, with a rough split of what you might pay versus the insurer.

Insurance

Health billing so far this year

Check your insurer app or card statement. Remaining deductible is applied first, so the insurer may pay $0 on a smaller bill until you’ve met it.

Deductible:

Billing codes

Start with a common grouping, then search to add more CPT codes. These are typical hospital-file combinations, not a complete bill.

Places

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Hospital price files

All San Francisco hospitals we track. Star ratings are CMS Care Compare scores (overall quality plus HCAHPS patient surveys)—we display them, we don’t calculate our own. Where we found a CMS machine-readable price file (MRF), you can open it; comparison prices use every CPT/HCPCS code we could parse from ZSFG, Kaiser SF, CPMC Van Ness / Mission Bernal / Davies, UCSF Medical Center, and UCSF Hyde and Stanyan.

How to read this

Why the you / insurer split is rough

We estimate from a stand-in hospital price and generic benefit rules. A real bill (or a hospital / insurer cost estimate) uses your member-specific contract. To get closer, we’d need:

Issuer here is for context only; it does not change the rate we use. Treat rankings as an exploratory comparison, not a quote or guaranteed patient responsibility. Confirm the complete episode, network status, and member-specific estimate with both the facility and insurer.