FairHealthCheck Updates & Roadmap
Healthcare billing is opaque, inconsistent, and intimidating. FairHealthCheck exists to give patients clarity, leverage, and confidence. This section tracks what we’ve already built, what’s actively in progress, and what’s coming next—so users, partners, and investors can see how the product is evolving.
What’s Live Today
- Upload UB‑04 / CMS‑1450 hospital bills
- Automated OCR + manual fallback parsing
- Line‑item extraction for charges, codes, dates, and providers
- Error‑tolerant pipeline that flags ambiguous or missing fields
- Compare your bill against hospital averages
- Compare your bill against state‑level benchmarks
- Compare your bill against CMS‑reported pricing (when available)
- Clear indicators when data is missing or unavailable (no silent gaps)
- Proprietary negotiation rating per bill
- Identifies suspicious charges, outliers, and negotiable line items
- Highlights leverage points patients can use when calling billing departments
- Personalized, downloadable negotiation letters
- Contextualized to the hospital, charges, and benchmarks
- Designed for real‑world use with billing offices (not generic templates)
- Stripe‑powered checkout
- Secure handling of sensitive medical and billing data
- Designed with privacy‑first principles
Currently in Development
- Native‑like mobile experience via Capacitor
- Simplified upload flow (camera‑first bill capture)
- Push notifications for bill updates and negotiation reminders
- Cross‑checking OCR vs manual extraction
- Confidence scoring per extracted field
- Reduced false positives on CPT / HCPCS codes
- Track original bill vs negotiated outcome
- Visualize total dollars saved over time
- Patient‑friendly summaries (shareable, printable)
What’s Coming Next
- Users describe a planned procedure in plain language
- AI maps descriptions to likely CPT / HCPCS codes
- Estimated cost ranges by hospital and region
- Helps patients shop before care happens—not after the bill shock
- Cost vs quality vs outcomes
- Identifies hospitals that are both affordable and high‑quality
- Designed to counter the myth that “more expensive = better care”
- Step‑by‑step call scripts based on bill type and hospital behavior
- Adaptive strategies depending on how billing offices respond
- Built from real negotiation outcomes, not theory
- Detect common insurance processing errors
- Highlight mismatches between coverage and billed amounts
- Surface next‑best actions (appeal vs negotiate vs pay)
Long‑Term Vision
FairHealthCheck aims to become the consumer layer for healthcare pricing:
- Transparent costs before care
- Fair bills after care
- Data‑driven leverage for patients
We believe patients deserve the same pricing clarity they get in every other major purchase—and we’re building the tools to make that real.
