Meet the Team
Joanne Rodrigues
Founder and CEO
She is an experienced data scientist and enterprise manager with master's degrees in mathematics, political science, and demography from the London School of Econonmics and University of California Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in international political economy from Georgetown University. She is also the author of Product Analytics: Applied Data Science techniques for Actionable Consumer Insight for Addison-Wesley’s Data and Analytics series.
Lawrence Rodrigues
Chief Technology Officer
He has a master's degree in computer science and in electrical engineering from Univ. of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He is an industry expert with over 30+ years of engineering and IT experience in web architecture, design, and development, with an emphasis on computer vision and building imaging systems. Authored two Java books for top industry publisher Addison-Wesley, wrote technical articles, and presented at over 50 conferences. Worked for over 20+ years managing teams and developing and delivering software products for hospitals, including some of the first software for CT scanners.
Neveena Ferrao
Chief Design Officer
She is an talented designer and web developer. She designed over 30 sites in 5 countries for both startups and large brands like Staples. She has a bachelors and master's degree in Computer Science and a special interest in building robotics.
Sohini Sircar
Head of Health Policy
A healthcare policy and management professional, with experience working on IBM’s Watson Health’s privacy policies and compliance, with bachelors and masters degrees from Georgetown and Yale respectively in healthcare policy and administration.
About
We use public data from hospitals, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other public sources to compare health provider prices for services.
Transparency
We provide chargemaster, average insurer and estimated cash prices by hospital and medicare reimbursement rates for most hospital procedures in California.
Crowdsourced Info
We need you to make this site better! While this site relies on public data, to improve data quality, we rely on you to downvote incorrect prices or contact us with information about hospital cash prices.
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On January 1, 2019, hospitals were required to post their pricing lists. In July of this year, the Trump Administration proposed a new rule that would require the posting of insurer prices.