A membership association founded in 2014 by Dr. Keith Smith and benefits administrator Jay Kempton, built on a single principle: prices should be published, bundled, and identical for every patient regardless of who is paying. Its stated list of anti-free-market practices names the things most of American healthcare does as a matter of course — hiding prices, tampering with them, selling discounts off an inflated list, and sending several surprise bills for one episode of care. It now runs 33 local chapters across 27 states.
Why it is listed here: not as a provider, but as the most useful tool we have found for acting on the fiat-insurance opt-out. Its ShopHealth search returns real bundled cash prices with the facility and address attached, and membership is not required to use it. Its separate DPC Directory claims contact details for more than four thousand direct primary care practices nationally, which for most readers is the more actionable of the two.
Two things to know before you use it. First, a search with only a location and no keyword silently returns nothing — no results and no error — so type a procedure name, then narrow by city. Second, the price data is not perfectly clean: we found obviously corrupted entries sitting alongside correct ones, including a knee replacement listed at $25. Treat any figure you find there as a lead to confirm with the facility directly, not as a quote.
Allies are screened on sound-money criteria only — cash price, no billing office, no insurance dependency. We do not evaluate clinical quality, and a listing is not a medical recommendation.