{"site":"cms.gov","task":"healthcare_admin.ask_about_estimate","available":true,"recipe":{"uri":"recipe://cms.gov/healthcare_admin.ask_about_estimate/public-preflight-v1","version":1,"status":"active","agent_class":"browser_agent_user_present","summary":"CMS hospital price transparency page -> public price transparency requirements and hospital comparison context -> estimate caveats before any provider-specific request.","steps":[{"order":1,"instruction":"Open the documented public path for CMS Hospital Price Transparency: CMS hospital price transparency page -> public price transparency requirements and hospital comparison context -> estimate caveats before any provider-specific request.","evidence_gate":"Public source or help surface is visible."},{"order":2,"instruction":"Check the listed blockers and policy constraints before entering account, payment, booking, or cancellation state.","evidence_gate":"login_required, price_mismatch, hidden_fee, policy_unparseable, human_handoff_required"},{"order":3,"instruction":"Stop before any irreversible or user-sensitive action and ask for explicit approval.","evidence_gate":"User approval is captured before final action."}],"guards":["Do not submit contact forms or requests containing health information without user approval.","Treat estimates as non-final and capture assumptions, service description, location, payer context, and exclusions.","Summarize administrative price-transparency requirements only; do not provide medical advice."],"success_signals":["Official public path identified","Required inputs and handoff gates captured","No mutating action performed"],"expires_at":"2026-07-30T17:02:18.647Z"},"known_blockers":["login_required","price_mismatch","hidden_fee","policy_unparseable","human_handoff_required"],"confidence":{"score":0.27,"level":"low","sample_size":2,"rationale":"Confidence reflects 0.7 effective weight, Wilson bounds 0.027422-0.944834, and Beta posterior mean 0.476667."},"freshness":{"updated_at":"2026-07-29T17:02:18.647Z","age_days":0,"status":"fresh","rationale":"Latest evidence is 0 days old."},"evidence":{"sample_size":2,"source_tiers":["public_web_observation"],"evidence_ids":["top100-healthcare_admin-6-cmsgov-healthcare-adminask-about-estimate"],"latest_evidence_id":"top100-healthcare_admin-6-cmsgov-healthcare-adminask-about-estimate","notes":["Official public source supports a routing-level price-transparency preflight. No login, patient data entry, estimate request, payment, or account action was attempted.","Source: https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/hospital-price-transparency"]},"trust":{"score":0.32,"level":"low","reporter_count":0,"deduplicated_evidence_count":0,"quarantined_count":0,"rationale":"Low-trust public web observation from official or public task documentation; treat as directional until measured agent runs arrive."},"recommended_actions":[{"priority":"high","actor":"agent","action":"Do not submit contact forms or requests containing health information without user approval.","expected_impact":"Keeps the agent inside documented, reversible, user-approved boundaries."},{"priority":"high","actor":"agent","action":"Require total-price verification immediately before final submission.","expected_impact":"Reduces high-regret transaction errors."},{"priority":"medium","actor":"agent","action":"Capture handoff evidence and pause before accepting retention offers.","expected_impact":"Keeps user intent explicit during adversarial cancellation flows."}]}