A Shiny web app to find out how much medical procedures cost in your state.
08 May 2013Today the front page of the Huffington Post featured the Today the [front page of the Huffington Post featured](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html) the that shows the cost of many popular procedures broken down by hospital. We here at Simply Statistics think you should be able to explore these data more easily. So we asked Today the [front page of the Huffington Post featured](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html) the [Today the [front page of the Huffington Post featured](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/08/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html) the](https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/index.html) that shows the cost of many popular procedures broken down by hospital. We here at Simply Statistics think you should be able to explore these data more easily. So we asked to help us build a Shiny App that allows you to interact with these data. You can choose your state and your procedure and see how much the procedure costs at hospitals in your state. It takes a second to load because it is a lot of data….
Here are some screenshots for intracranial hemmhorage for the US and for Idaho.
The R code is here if you want to tweak/modify.