← Surgery price evidence

San Antonio evidence build · public beta

See what a surgery number includes before you compare it

SurgeryViz keeps practice listings, historical Medicare records, hospital facility rates, insurer-negotiated rates, and your own documents in separate evidence lanes. They answer different questions and should not be averaged together.

121 provisional ZCTAs in the collection boundaryAverage withheld until comparable local evidence clears review

Average withheld

A useful comparison starts with matching procedure and fee scope.

We will not publish a “San Antonio average” by mixing upper and lower eyelids, cosmetic and functional care, one-eye and two-eye procedures, or prices that include different combinations of surgeon, facility, anesthesia, testing, prescriptions, and follow-up.

Useful now

Compare two written quotes

Line up seven fee categories and find the exact questions each practice still needs to answer.

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Official public data

Explore covered-care history

See provider-by-procedure Medicare activity and billing fields, clearly labeled as historical covered care—not a cosmetic cash quote.

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Your actual case

Check a quote or bill privately

Connect a written quote, Good Faith Estimate, EOB, and later bill inside one pseudonymous episode.

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Reviewed public price listings

2 first-party numbers, kept in their original scope

These are useful as individual reference points—not a market average. “Starts at,” approximate totals, ranges, anesthesia setting, and known fee inclusions remain visible.

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Upper blepharoplasty awake under local anesthesia

fixed

$4,945

Marcos Lopez, MD at Amelia Aesthetics

Provider-specific posted price including pre-op, surgery, post-op, anesthesia, surgeon, and operating-room fees.

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Upper blepharoplasty asleep under general anesthesia

fixed

$6,829

Marcos Lopez, MD at Amelia Aesthetics

Provider-specific posted price including pre-op, surgery, post-op, anesthesia, surgeon, and operating-room fees.

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Official data assembled

CMS facility quality, covered-care history, and a candidate-provider census

437

NPPES candidate NPIs

Candidates only; not verified as eyelid-surgery practices.

330

Medicare provider-service rows

Historical covered care, never a cosmetic cash quote.

43

CMS ambulatory facilities

Facility-wide ASC quality records.

38

patient-experience matches

OAS CAHPS facility survey reporting.

CMS facility quality is not eyelid-procedure-specific and cannot support “best surgeon” or “best facility” rankings. The NPPES boundary is provisional until the HUD-USPS address-ratio crosswalk is ingested.

Collection status

What the San Antonio data build is doing

Provider census

437 unique NPPES candidates collected across 121 provisional ZCTAs

Builds candidate NPI join keys; no procedure availability or ranking is inferred.

Practice prices

2 first-party price observations source-reviewed

Exact amounts stay attached to scope language and source excerpts.

Hospital and insurer files

Discovering facility files and targeted covered-service rates

Facility and negotiated rates remain separate from surgeon, anesthesia, and patient responsibility.

Patient episodes

Accepting private quote and bill documents now

Actual documents can reveal omissions and quote-to-final variance that public files cannot.

Audit the boundary

No hidden geography assumptions

The current discovery boundary is a versioned, official Census-derived ZCTA fallback. It is not yet the HUD-USPS address-ratio crosswalk, so SurgeryViz will not publish a market-wide pricing-availability percentage from it.

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