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The Turquoise Health alternative

The full code set Turquoise keeps behind enterprise — self-serve.

Turquoise's free consumer tool is deliberately narrow — it shows only a curated set of verified shoppable procedures, only providers it can corroborate, and it tells Medicare/Medicaid users not to use it. The full code set and the raw rates live behind a quote-only enterprise contract. PT.io exposes the full published code set for each hospital and every payer rate, self-serve, with transparent pricing (free tier + a $299 per-hospital report) — no sales call to see the long tail. The honest trade: Turquoise has far deeper cross-source normalization and rate verification, and a vast payer-TiC dataset we don't carry.

5 / 8
head-to-head rounds to PriceTransparency
Free + paid; $299/report
PriceTransparency price
3
rounds we call even or theirs
Self-serve
no sales call, no demo gate

Who Turquoise Health is: The dominant hospital + payer price-transparency platform — a free consumer search over a curated set of shoppable procedures, plus a quote-only enterprise data/clearinghouse business.

Transparent pricing

One published price. No quote-gate.

PriceTransparencyPublished
Free + paid; $299/report
Everything bundled, self-serve, on this page — sign up and start in minutes.
Turquoise Health
Free consumer / enterprise quote-only
The dominant hospital + payer price-transparency platform — a free consumer search over a curated set of shoppable procedures, plus a quote-only enterprise data/clearinghouse business.
Head to head

PriceTransparency wins 5 of 8 rounds

A green check is a round we win outright. We mark them honestly — no manufactured wins.

 
PriceTransparency
Turquoise Health
Price
Free + paid; $299/report
Free consumer; enterprise quote-only
Code coverage
Full published code set per hospital, every payer
Curated shoppable-procedure set (consumer)
Self-serve full data
Self-serve, transparent pricing, no sales call
Full data behind enterprise sales
Single-hospital lookup
First-class — per-hospital pages + report
A funnel to enterprise, not a product
4-hospital compare + export
4-hospital side-by-side + CSV export
Limited consumer compare
Compliance grade
A–F compliance grade per hospital
Not a consumer feature
Cross-source rate verification
Single-source (hospital MRF)
Multi-source normalization + verification
Payer TiC breadth
Hospital MRFs only — no payer TiC or claims
Hospital MRF + payer TiC at scale
An honest take

We're not for everyone

Turquoise Health is the better pick if you need:

  • Deeper cross-source normalization and rate verification across hospital + payer data.
  • A vast payer-side (Transparency in Coverage) dataset and a payments/clearinghouse layer built for large institutions.
  • A polished, verified consumer experience for the handful of most-shopped procedures.

Bottom line: PT.io to self-serve the full code set for a specific hospital at a transparent price; Turquoise for enterprise-scale, cross-source-verified payer + hospital data with a clearinghouse.

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No demo gate, no quote, no sales cycle. Free + paid; $299/report — see for yourself.

Comparison based on publicly available information and each product's published materials as of 2026; Turquoise Health is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with PriceTransparency. Figures for Turquoise Health reflect commonly-reported ranges where pricing is not public.