No you can’t comparison shop at the time. But if the prices were available people could know ahead of time.
Our healthcare system is one big greedy scam, gouging the most vulnerable.
There are places online where prices for various procedures by hospital are given for the whole country. But if I'm bitten by a snake or having a heart attack or in a car wreck I don't think I'm going to be telling the ambulance driver, "I know it's half an hour further away but County General is 20% cheaper for major heart attacks. Go there!"
BUMP.