Me and a friend were talking that idea a few weeks ago. You'd need to further include what insurance plan that consumer was on as well, so know what the hospital would charge knowing that information.
Crowdsourcing it would make it significantly more transparent, but the problem (to me, at least) is more that submitting that information somewhere is more of a privacy/HIPAA thing than most consumers and companies are willing to handle.
I could definitely envision a government system, like medicare, would hire people to do this, and make the prices more transparent to consumers, but this is the same medicare whose part D cannot negotiate drug prices due to lobbying efforts.
Crowdsourcing it would make it significantly more transparent, but the problem (to me, at least) is more that submitting that information somewhere is more of a privacy/HIPAA thing than most consumers and companies are willing to handle.
I could definitely envision a government system, like medicare, would hire people to do this, and make the prices more transparent to consumers, but this is the same medicare whose part D cannot negotiate drug prices due to lobbying efforts.