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Open Price Comparison for US Hospitals

Asclepius by Praecantatio Labs

What

Open source data acquisition project for transparent price comparison of various US Hospitals

Why

Transparent pricing is important for a free market. Medicare now requires it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/medicare-will-require-hospitals-to-post-prices-online/ar-AAwiccI

Installation

If you do not have git, please click download as zip instead of running the first line.

git clone [email protected]:PraecantatioLabs/Asclepius.git
cd Asclepius/
pipenv install

Contributing

  • Add scraper and data for your local hospitals
  • Pull request
  • Type in I agree to the terms as specified in CONTRIBUTING.md

TODO

  • Add web query interface
  • Add database support

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