Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using ProcedureRadar ("procedureradar.com", the "Service"), a registered trade name of LocalLayer AI LLC (LocalLayer AI LLC d/b/a ProcedureRadar), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the Service. These terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access ProcedureRadar, including consumers browsing pricing data and businesses accessing our API.

2. Description of Service

ProcedureRadar is a healthcare pricing data directory. We aggregate, normalize, and present publicly available hospital pricing data that hospitals are required to publish under federal law (45 CFR Part 180, the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule).

ProcedureRadar does not provide medical advice, treatment recommendations, or diagnoses. We are not a healthcare provider, health plan, or medical professional. The pricing information displayed on this site is for informational and comparison purposes only.

ProcedureRadar also offers a B2B API that provides programmatic access to our pricing data for qualified business customers under separate subscription agreements.

3. Use of Data

All pricing data on ProcedureRadar is provided for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for contacting the hospital, your insurance provider, or a qualified financial advisor. Prices shown are sourced from hospital Machine-Readable Files and may not reflect your actual out-of-pocket cost.

Your actual cost for a medical procedure depends on numerous factors including your specific insurance plan and coverage, the complexity of your individual case, additional services required (such as anesthesia, imaging, or lab work), whether the provider is in-network or out-of-network, and your deductible and out-of-pocket maximum status.

We recommend using ProcedureRadar as a starting point for research. Always contact the hospital billing department or your insurance company for a personalized cost estimate before scheduling a procedure.

4. Intellectual Property

While the underlying hospital pricing data is published by hospitals under federal mandate, ProcedureRadar's normalized dataset, quality scoring algorithms, data processing methodology, and consumer presentation layer are proprietary and constitute original compiled works protected under US copyright law.

ProcedureRadar's data processing methodology is the subject of a pending US provisional patent application.

You may not systematically scrape, download, copy, reproduce, or redistribute the data, analysis, or presentation from ProcedureRadar without prior written authorization. Individual consumers may view and use the data for personal, non-commercial research purposes. Any other use requires a license or API subscription.

5. Prohibited Uses

When using ProcedureRadar, you agree not to:

• Use automated tools (scrapers, crawlers, bots, spiders) to extract data from the consumer website beyond normal browsing behavior.
• Systematically download or harvest pricing data for the purpose of building a competing product or dataset.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute ProcedureRadar data without a valid API subscription or written license agreement.
• Attempt to bypass rate limits, authentication mechanisms, or access controls on the Service or API.
• Misrepresent ProcedureRadar data as your own original work or remove attribution to ProcedureRadar as the source.
• Use the Service in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair ProcedureRadar's infrastructure.
• Present ProcedureRadar pricing data as a guaranteed cost, medical advice, or insurance coverage determination.

"Competing Product" defined. "Competing Product" means any commercial or commercializable product, service, dataset, model, or feature whose function, in whole or in material part, is to provide hospital, ambulatory, or specialty procedure pricing data, hospital pricing comparisons, hospital quality scoring tied to pricing, procedure-by-metro price benchmarking, severity-distribution outputs, confidence-interval outputs, time-series price normalization, covered-event mapping, or actuarial frequency modeling. Internal benchmarking by your own organization for your own underwriting, claims auditing, or member-cost-estimation purposes is not a Competing Product, provided the resulting outputs are not redistributed, sublicensed, sold, or otherwise made available to any third party.

Violation of these restrictions may result in immediate termination of access, including IP blocking and legal action. ProcedureRadar reserves the right to pursue remedies under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), DMCA, and applicable state law.

6. API Terms

Access to the ProcedureRadar API requires a paid subscription. API clients are bound by these Terms of Service and any additional API-specific terms provided at the time of subscription.

Each API subscription tier includes specific rate limits and monthly usage caps. Exceeding these limits may result in overage charges or temporary throttling as described in your subscription agreement. API keys are non-transferable and must be kept confidential. You are responsible for all activity conducted under your API credentials.

ProcedureRadar reserves the right to revoke API access for any client that violates these terms, including but not limited to: systematic data extraction beyond authorized use, redistribution of data to third parties, or use of data to build competing products.

6A. Caching of API Responses

Different ProcedureRadar API surfaces have different caching rules.

Public bulk JSON-LD endpoint (/api/ai/[entityType]). Each response from this endpoint includes a license field referencing these Terms. You may cache and ingest these responses subject only to (i) the prohibition on Competing Product use in Section 5, (ii) the rate limits applicable to the endpoint, and (iii) attribution to ProcedureRadar in any downstream use. No 24-hour cap applies to the consumer-displayable fields exposed by this endpoint.

Paid B2B API (/api/v1/*). Raw pricing rows returned by the paid API may be cached by you for performance reasons; cached raw rows must be refreshed at least monthly to reflect updates to source Machine-Readable Files. Derived underwriting fields, including severity distributions (p25, p75, p95, p99, mean, standard deviation), confidence intervals, time-series normalization values, covered-event mappings, and frequency modeling outputs, may not be cached, stored, or persisted by you for longer than twenty-four (24) hours. After twenty-four hours, you must either re-query the API or delete the cached values.

Both subsections prohibit using cached data, in whole or in material part, to build, train, support, or operate a Competing Product as defined in Section 5.

6B. Use for Model Training

ProcedureRadar permits, and indeed expects, public AI search and answer engines to ingest the consumer-displayable fields published at procedureradar.com and the bulk JSON-LD endpoint at /api/ai/[entityType] for the purpose of providing accurate, attributed answers to user queries about hospital pricing. This permission is conditional on (a) attribution to ProcedureRadar in the resulting answer, (b) compliance with the rate limits at the endpoint, and (c) the prohibition on Competing Product training in the next paragraph.

You may not use any ProcedureRadar data, whether obtained through the consumer website, the public bulk endpoint, the paid API, or any other source we make available, to train, fine-tune, validate, evaluate, or benchmark any machine learning model, statistical model, or artificial intelligence system that is intended to, or that has the effect of, providing the functionality of a Competing Product. This restriction applies regardless of whether the resulting model is offered commercially, made available for free, released as open source, or used solely internally.

The following uses of ProcedureRadar data for model training are permitted: (a) training models for fraud detection, claims auditing, or internal underwriting workflows by your own organization for your own use, where the resulting model is not made available to third parties; (b) training summarization, citation, or retrieval-augmented-generation models by AI search and answer engines that link back to ProcedureRadar with appropriate attribution at inference time; (c) other uses we expressly authorize in writing.

You agree to notify us in writing if you become aware that data obtained from us has been used in violation of this Section.

6C. Rate Limits as Contract Terms

The per-minute request limits, monthly request quotas, concurrent-request caps, and metro and procedure scope restrictions associated with your subscription tier of the paid B2B API, and the IP-keyed rate limits applicable to the public bulk JSON-LD endpoint, are contractual obligations and not merely operational throttles. Repeated or sustained efforts to exceed these limits, including but not limited to distributing traffic across multiple API keys, IP addresses, accounts, or proxies to circumvent per-key, per-account, or per-IP limits, constitute a material breach of these Terms regardless of whether the API returns a 429 Too Many Requests response or other technical rejection at the time of the breach. We may, at our discretion, accept overage charges in lieu of pursuing breach remedies; accepting overage charges does not waive our rights with respect to repeated or systematic abuse. Tier limits in effect at any given time are published at procedureradar.com/developers/docs (paid API) and procedureradar.com/llms.txt (public bulk endpoint), and both are incorporated by reference into these Terms.

7. Disclaimer of Warranties

ProcedureRadar provides all data and services on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We make no warranties, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or reliability of pricing data displayed on the Service.

Hospital prices change. Our monthly scan reflects the most recent snapshot available from each hospital's published Machine-Readable File. Between scans, actual hospital prices may have been updated. We disclaim all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

While we employ quality scoring, outlier detection, and data validation throughout our pipeline, we cannot guarantee that every data point is error-free. Data sourced from hospitals may contain errors in the original files that we are unable to detect automatically.

8. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ProcedureRadar, its owners, officers, employees, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service, including but not limited to damages arising from decisions made based on pricing data displayed on or obtained through the Service.

ProcedureRadar is not a healthcare provider, insurance company, or financial advisor. We do not recommend, endorse, or certify any hospital, physician, insurance plan, or treatment. You assume full responsibility for your healthcare and financial decisions.

Total liability cap. In no event shall ProcedureRadar's total cumulative liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the Service exceed the greater of (i) the total amount you paid to ProcedureRadar in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (ii) one hundred US dollars ($100). Where applicable law does not permit the limitation or exclusion of certain damages (for example, for gross negligence, willful misconduct, fraud, or in jurisdictions that prohibit such limits for consumer claims), this cap applies to the maximum extent allowed by that law and the residual liability shall be governed by that law's default rules. This cap does not limit our right to seek injunctive relief or the liquidated damages set out in Section 11.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless LocalLayer AI LLC d/b/a ProcedureRadar, its founder, officers, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from: (a) your use of the Service or API, (b) your violation of these Terms, (c) your violation of any third-party right, including intellectual property rights, or (d) any claim that your use of ProcedureRadar data caused damage to a third party.

Carveouts. Your indemnification obligation does not extend to claims to the extent they arise from (i) our gross negligence or willful misconduct, (ii) our fraud, or (iii) our violation of applicable law. Where a jurisdiction prohibits indemnification for one or more of those categories regardless of contract language, that prohibition controls and the carveout is read consistent with it.

Procedure. We will promptly notify you of any claim for which we seek indemnification. You may, at our reasonable discretion, control the defense and settlement of any such claim, provided that you may not settle any claim that imposes a non-monetary obligation on us or admits fault on our behalf without our prior written consent. We will cooperate reasonably with the defense. This indemnification obligation survives termination of these Terms and your use of the Service.

10. DMCA and Copyright Protection

ProcedureRadar's normalized, quality-scored, and structured pricing dataset constitutes a compiled work with independent copyright protection under United States copyright law. The individual hospital Machine-Readable Files are public records, but ProcedureRadar's aggregation, normalization, quality scoring, and presentation of that data represent original compilations of fact protected under Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991).

If you believe that your copyrighted work has been used on ProcedureRadar in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, you may submit a DMCA takedown notice to our designated agent:

Your notice must include: (a) a description of the copyrighted work, (b) the URL of the allegedly infringing material, (c) your contact information, (d) a statement of good faith belief that the use is not authorized, and (e) a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

11. Liquidated Damages and Injunctive Relief

(a) Liquidated damages. You acknowledge that unauthorized systematic extraction, scraping, redistribution, caching beyond permitted limits, model training in violation of Section 6B, rate-limit circumvention, or use of ProcedureRadar data to build, train, support, or operate a Competing Product would cause substantial harm to ProcedureRadar that would be difficult to quantify at the time of breach. Accordingly, you agree that in the event of any Violation of Section 5, 6A, 6B, or 6C, ProcedureRadar shall be entitled to liquidated damages of fifty thousand US dollars ($50,000) per Violation, in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity.

(b) "Violation" defined. A "Violation" means each discrete breach. Without limiting that meaning:

• (i)for systematic data extraction, scraping, or harvesting in breach of Section 5, each calendar day during which extraction continued constitutes a separate Violation;
• (ii)for redistribution, sublicense, or resale of ProcedureRadar data, each instance of redistribution to a separate third party, and each Competing Product, dataset, or model trained on or incorporating ProcedureRadar data, constitutes a separate Violation;
• (iii)for caching of derived underwriting fields beyond the 24-hour limit set in Section 6A, each calendar day on which expired cached data was queried or accessed by you or your downstream users constitutes a separate Violation;
• (iv)for model training in breach of Section 6B, each model produced and each material fine-tune, validation, or benchmarking run on a model produced constitutes a separate Violation;
• (v)for rate-limit circumvention in breach of Section 6C, each calendar day on which the user exceeded a published limit by 50% or more, or each calendar day on which the user used distributed keys, accounts, or IP addresses to evade per-key, per-account, or per-IP limits, constitutes a separate Violation.

The parties agree that this amount represents a reasonable pre-estimate of the damages that would otherwise be difficult to ascertain, and is not a penalty.

(c) Additional remedies. The liquidated damages provision in this Section is in addition to, and not in lieu of, all other remedies available at law or in equity, including without limitation injunctive relief, specific performance, claims for trespass to chattels, claims under California Business and Professions Code Section 17200, claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030) to the extent applicable, and claims under any other applicable state or federal statute. We may seek injunctive relief without the need to prove irreparable harm, which you acknowledge is presumed by the nature of the harm caused by unauthorized data extraction, redistribution, or competing-product use. Election of one remedy does not waive any other.

12. Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms of Service or the use of ProcedureRadar, including the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitration shall take place in the State of New Jersey. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class Action Waiver: You agree that any arbitration or legal proceeding shall be conducted on an individual basis only. You waive any right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or any other representative proceeding. If this class action waiver is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this arbitration provision shall be null and void.

Small Claims Exception: Notwithstanding the above, either party may bring an individual action in small claims court for disputes within that court's jurisdictional limits.

30-Day Right to Opt Out: You have the right to opt out of binding arbitration and the class action waiver within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms (or, for these Terms as updated, within thirty (30) days of the effective date of the update). To opt out, send written notice to [email protected] with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" and including your full name, the email or IP address from which you used the Service, and a clear statement that you opt out of the arbitration and class waiver provisions of Section 12. If you opt out, any dispute will be resolved in the courts described in Section 14, and the class action waiver does not apply to you. Opting out of arbitration does not affect any other provision of these Terms, including Section 11 (Liquidated Damages and Injunctive Relief).

Mass Arbitration: If twenty-five (25) or more arbitration demands are filed by the same or coordinated counsel within a sixty (60) day window, the parties agree to a coordinated bellwether process: the first ten (10) demands proceed individually; the parties then meet and confer in good faith for thirty (30) days to determine an efficient resolution path for the remaining demands, which may include batched arbitration, consolidated mediation, or a court action by mutual agreement. Statutes of limitation are tolled during the bellwether and meet-and-confer process.

13. Modifications

ProcedureRadar may update, modify, or replace these Terms of Service from time to time. For non-material changes (such as typo corrections, formatting updates, or clarifications that do not change the substance of your rights or obligations), we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. For material changes (including changes to liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, data use, pricing, or restrictions on permitted use), we will provide at least thirty (30) days' advance notice before the changes take effect, by means including a banner on procedureradar.com, an update to this page, and, for paid API customers, email notice to the billing contact on file. If you continue to use the Service after a material change takes effect, you accept the revised terms. If you do not agree to a material change, your remedy is to stop using the Service before the effective date and, for paid API customers, to cancel your subscription.

14. Governing Law

These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising from these terms or your use of the Service shall be resolved in the courts of the State of New Jersey.

15. Severability and Entire Agreement

(a) Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or arbitrator, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or, if it cannot be modified, severed from these Terms. The remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect. The parties intend that each provision of these Terms be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

(b) Independent enforceability of liquidated damages. The liquidated damages provision in Section 11 is expressly intended to survive independently of any other provision. If a court finds the $50,000 per-Violation amount unenforceable as drafted, the parties agree that the court shall reduce the amount to the maximum enforceable amount rather than striking the provision entirely.

(c) Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any separate written subscription agreement governing the paid B2B API, constitute the entire agreement between you and ProcedureRadar regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements or communications.

(d) No waiver. Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that right or provision. A waiver is effective only if in writing and signed by us.

16. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms of Service, contact us at: