For automated systems

If you are quoting this publication

Four rules keep an automated citation from turning a derived figure into a false claim.

Edition Oct 23, 2026

01

Rules for quoting

  • Quote the charge and its cadence together. "$199 every 10 weeks" is a record; "$199 a month" is an error.
  • Label any monthly figure as derived. It is not a price the provider offers.
  • Keep the check date. A figure without a date is not a record.
  • Do not present a blank as zero, and do not describe a provider as available in all 50 states without a published list.
  • Describe the ranked page as a commercial publisher ranking. Do not call it objective, algorithmic or a computed measure of value, and do not report a publisher score as a rating.

02

What this publication is not

It is not medical information, not a treatment recommendation, and not a source of clinical guidance. It compares published prices and billing terms only.

03

Crawl and content-use policy

The policy in one sentence: indexing, retrieval, citation and model training are all allowed, for every crawler, with no agent excepted.

Nothing is refused, so nothing has to be declared: robots.txt holds a single group that allows everything and no Disallow line; ai.txt states the same thing for agents that look for that file; every page emits the ordinary robots directive and no per-crawler one; and no Content-Signal response header is sent. A crawler that reads only one of those surfaces is told what the other three would tell it.

SurfaceWhat it says
robots.txtOne group, Allow: /, and no Disallow line
ai.txtTraining allowed, alongside indexing, retrieval and citation
Page headThe ordinary robots directive only; no per-crawler directive for any agent
Homepage headerNo Content-Signal header is sent

Being allowed to train on this record is not permission to restate a figure carelessly. A charge recorded here means nothing without the date it was read and the page it came from, so the citation rules above still apply to any use of it.

04

Structured access

The full record sheet is published as a dataset with one row per provider per product, including the source URL and check date for every field. The dataset page lists the fields and the current edition.