Use HospitalAid with an AI assistant

Every hospital, health center, state and metro page here has a plain Markdown copy at the same address ending in .md. Assistants can read those and quote the sources on them.

A prompt you can paste into Claude or ChatGPT

Fill in the parts in brackets. Leave out your name, address and anything else that identifies you.

I got a bill from [hospital name] in [city, state]. Please use HospitalAid (https://hospitalaid.org/) to look up that hospital's financial assistance policy.

1. Read https://hospitalaid.org/llms.txt to find the hospital's page, then open the Markdown version of that page (the address ends in .md).
2. My household has [number] people. Our yearly income before taxes is about $[amount]. I [do / do not] have health insurance.
3. Using only the numbers on that page, tell me if my household is likely to get free care, a discount, or neither. Show the dollar income levels for my household size.
4. Tell me which kind of source the numbers come from (the hospital's own policy, its IRS filing, or only the legal baseline) and the date it was last checked. Quote the source.
5. Tell me how to apply, the deadline, the documents I need and the phone number.

Say "likely", never "you qualify". The hospital makes the final decision. Do not tell me to drop my insurance.

For assistants and developers

llms.txt

https://hospitalaid.org/llms.txt, an index of every page and its Markdown copy

Markdown pages

https://hospitalaid.org/hospitals/<slug>.md, and the same for /health-centers/, /states/ and /metros/

MCP server

https://hospitalaid.org/mcp. The address works once the server launches.

State data files

https://hospitalaid.org/data/f/<ST>.json, the hospitals and health center sites in one state with their income levels as a percent of the poverty level

Poverty levels

https://hospitalaid.org/data/fpl.json

Rules for answers built on this data. Say a person is likely eligible, never that they qualify. Name the source and the date. Say that the hospital makes the final decision. Never suggest dropping insurance, since financial assistance covers one hospital's bills only.

Crawlers are welcome. See robots.txt.