Bay Area Atlas
20 hospitals. HCAHPS quality scores plotted against negotiated rates from federal Transparency in Coverage data. Spending more doesn’t buy you better care. Rates run from $8,998 (Daly City) to $40,073 (San Francisco) — a 4.5× spread.
$9.0k–$40.1k
Cost range
r = 0.20
Cost × quality
Quality
Cost