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Research

The roll-up of every page's Open section. Each item names the page it lands on; the finding goes there, not here. An item is done when its page's Unverified box is gone; it stays here ticked and dated, so the list is also the record of what was checked and when.

Regulatory

  • Confirm the scope of the hospital rule (45 CFR 180.20) and the free-access language (180.50(d)) → Layer A, Legal
  • Confirm the Transparency in Coverage cites (45 CFR 147.210 to 147.212) and access language → Layer B, Legal
  • Confirm CMS-9882-F and its phase-in → Layer B, done 2026-10-23
  • Confirm the cms-hpt.txt requirement (180.50(d)(6)) → Layer A, done 2026-10-23
  • Research S3409; confirm A5540/S4501 and S3012/A1729 statuses against the legislature's own site → Sources

Facilities and codes

  • Enumerate Essex acute-care hospitals from CMS data (is Saint Mary's, Orange, an eighth?); locate each file via cms-hpt.txt; URL, format, version, date; validator result → Facilities
  • Confirm Saint Michael's owner and CareWell's licence holder → Facilities
  • Department of Health facility search terms; bulk list by records request → Facilities
  • Fix the code list with plain names; confirm the CMS 70 → Code list

Benchmark

  • Which CMS tables and which locality codes (CBSA 35084; PFS 12402/01) → Pipeline, done 2026-10-23
  • The FY2026 wage index value for CBSA 35084 and 2026 GPCIs; the inpatient approximation → Layer A
  • What Sage Transparency and NASHP publish for the same facilities → Sources

Existing work

  • Survey publishers and datasets → Sources and projects, done 2026-10-23
  • Survey parsers and validators → Sources, done 2026-10-23
  • DuckDB's JSON reader: not for multi-GB single-object files; pre-split to NDJSON → Pipeline, done 2026-10-23
  • Measure one carrier's table-of-contents and one network file; evaluate tic-mrf-parser and cms-mrf-extractor on it → Layer B
  • Ask ClearHealthCosts and DoltHub what they learned; check Sage Transparency per Essex facility → Sources

Submitted bills

  • Hands-on test of the redaction paths on a real EOB and itemized bill, per device; then the illustrated guide → Redaction
  • Run Presidio with the carrier patterns on samples; measure misses → Redaction
  • Confirm Cigna and Oxford member-ID formats, Cigna first from a volunteer's own documents; every carrier's claim-number format → Redaction
  • Confirm the suppression rule's threshold and coarsening order → Layer D
  • HIPAA reading with counsel before the form opens → Legal
  • New Jersey statutes; newer privacy law → Legal
  • Draft terms, consent text, disclaimers → Legal

Hardware

  • The box's shape as planning guidance: tiers of storage, memory, cores, virtualization → Homelab box, done 2026-10-24
  • Confirm the shape against the Layer B measurement (one carrier file parsed end to end, throughput and peak memory recorded) before buying → Homelab box, Layer B

Organization

  • One entity or two; the civic organization's name → Front State is the home of both sites; Hosting, done 2026-10-24
  • Nonprofit; whether the repositories move to a Front State GitHub organization → Hosting, Legal
  • Domain → costs.frontstate.org; Hosting, done 2026-10-24
  • The component's name → costs; Lineage, done 2026-10-24
  • Register costs.frontstate.org; Pages source to Actions → Hosting, done 2026-10-25
  • Draft the public-records asks and park them → Public-records asks