# Hospital Price Transparency — Public Data Bundle

Corpus: Nashville metro
Exported (UTC): 2026-07-17T22:39:53.133285+00:00
Build: `e15531a`
Analytics contract: `hospital_weighted_methodology_v2` — market
percentiles are hospital-weighted (one representative amount per
hospital, deduplicated contract votes) and methodology-specific
(per diem / case rate / fee schedule never mix in one statistic).

Each table ships as Parquet and CSV with identical content. CSVs
larger than 25 MB are gzip-compressed (`.csv.gz`).

- `hospital_overview` (14 rows): `hospital_overview.parquet` / `hospital_overview.csv`, exported from `gld_bi__hospital_overview`.
- `service_market_explorer` (217357 rows): `service_market_explorer.parquet` / `service_market_explorer.csv.gz`, exported from `gld_bi__service_market_explorer`.
- `hospital_service_rankings` (519230 rows): `hospital_service_rankings.parquet` / `hospital_service_rankings.csv.gz`, exported from `gld_bi__hospital_service_rankings`.
- `payer_contracting_explorer` (2086411 rows): `payer_contracting_explorer.parquet` / `payer_contracting_explorer.csv.gz`, exported from `gld_bi__payer_contracting_explorer`.
- `comparison_blocker_summary` (140 rows): `comparison_blocker_summary.parquet` / `comparison_blocker_summary.csv`, exported from `gld_bi__comparison_blocker_summary`.
- `featured_services` (30 rows): `featured_services.parquet` / `featured_services.csv`, exported from `gld_bi__featured_services`.
- `market_summary` (1 rows): `market_summary.parquet` / `market_summary.csv`, exported from `gld_bi__market_summary`.
- `comparability_funnel` (75 rows): `comparability_funnel.parquet` / `comparability_funnel.csv`, exported from `gld_bi__comparability_funnel`.
- `payer_overview` (36 rows): `payer_overview.parquet` / `payer_overview.csv`, exported from `gld_bi__payer_overview`.
- `public_data_dictionary` documents every table and column in this bundle.

## How to use this data responsibly

- Every claim is bounded to the corpus above. Do not present results
  as regional or national benchmarks beyond it.
- Never rank different price types against each other: gross_charge
  (list price), discounted_cash (self-pay), and negotiated_dollar
  (insurer-negotiated) are separate measures.
- Never compare different negotiated methodologies against each
  other: a per-diem value is a DAILY payment, not the price of a
  full stay or episode.
- Respect the published comparison gates: rows or contexts marked
  insufficient_denominator have fewer than 3 comparable hospitals and
  carry no market statistics by design.
- Readiness/usability scores describe how usable a hospital's
  published file is. They are not legal-compliance findings and not
  statements about care quality.
- Prices are hospital-published standard charges. They are not
  quotes and not a patient's out-of-pocket cost.