Research
Original research from MediBill Saver.
Quarterly analysis built from public federal data. Each report is published with a permanent Zenodo DOI under CC BY 4.0, so reporters, researchers, and clinicians can cite findings directly.
Last reviewed May 2026 · MediBill Saver Editorial Team
What we publish
Every quarter we publish one report drawn from the six federal data sources our audit relies on: CMS Physician Fee Schedule, NADAC, Hospital Price Transparency files, CMS NCCI bundling rules, Hospital Compare, and IRS Publication 78. The reports use only public data — no patient bills, no proprietary feeds, no AMA-licensed CPT manual text.
Each report ships with:
- An 8-to-12-page PDF and an HTML companion page.
- A permanent Zenodo DOI assigned at publication, indexed by Google Scholar and OpenAIRE.
- A reusable press summary — factual TLDR, three pull-quotes, and charts — for editorial use.
- An update to the corresponding statement on Wikidata entity Q139815877.
See /methodology for the source-by-source documentation underlying every report.
Reports
Q2 2026
Published · June 1, 2026
Hospital Price Transparency: cash-price spread across U.S. hospitals
Analysis of published Hospital Price Transparency files from 1,200+ U.S. hospitals. For twelve commonly-billed procedures we report the cash-price spread across hospitals and the median cash-to-Medicare ratio drawn from the CMS Physician Fee Schedule. Updated weekly as the underlying HPT data refreshes.
Founding methodology paper
Published · May 2026
Cross-Source Public-Data Audit of Hospital Bills: A Methodology for Patient-Side Verification Using Six Federal Datasets
The peer-citable methodology underlying the MediBill Saver audit. Published on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0 with a permanent DOI. Established the cross-source comparison framework used in all subsequent reports.
How to cite
For academic citation:
MediBill Saver Editorial Team. (2026). Cross-Source Public-Data Audit of Hospital Bills: A Methodology for Patient-Side Verification Using Six Federal Datasets. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20232731
For news and editorial use, please cite as:
MediBill Saver Q2 2026 research, published at https://www.medibillsaver.com/research.
Reporters who would like the press summary or charts ahead of publication should email press@medibillsaver.com.
Editorial standard
Every report follows the same editorial rule the rest of the site does: state facts, cite sources, do not characterize. We do not name hospitals or providers negatively. We do not claim what a charge “should” cost — hospitals legally set their own prices. Findings are framed as comparisons against federal benchmarks, with the underlying data and methodology linked so readers can verify our analysis.
See the press kit for the full editorial guidance we ask reporters to use when citing our work.