What public data exists to understand a hospital's finances varies by state. This site provides an inventory of what's available by state, ranked by how useful it is (0–10) based on access, granularity, recency, and breadth. Also available are other useful dashboards and resources for understanding hospital finances and state policy options for addressing high costs.
Ready-made dashboards that turn the raw federal data into comparable metrics. Reach for these before building anything custom — the crosswalk below points to them by question.
Pick what you're trying to find out. The hub routes you to the best sources for it: national tools, the federal resources, and the state systems that go deeper. Source grounding follows NASHP's data-source framework.
Prototype with real data for the 13 pilot states (green/amber/clay tiles), which center on states with cost-growth benchmarks and robust disclosure (largely the Peterson-Milbank cohort); grey states are not yet compiled but still inherit the federal resources and national tools. The crosswalk maps common policy questions to sources — deep-linking to specific datasets is a build-phase step.
Guides and inventories that teach how to read hospital financial data and turn it into the metrics that matter. A fuller learning library is a future add-on — see that tab.
It's one thing to see that costs are high; these hubs track what states are actually doing about it — price caps, growth targets, global budgets, and more. The Hub points to the strong existing inventories rather than rebuilding them.
Phase 1 is live and stands on its own. Each item below is a self-contained add-on that builds on the same backbone, so the Hub can grow over time. Everything marked Possible is a concept, not yet built.