Editorial Policy

This policy covers how FiyatList decides what to publish, how pages are written and checked, and what happens when we get something wrong. It applies to every page on the site.

Independence

FiyatList chooses its topics, sources, and figures on its own. No company pays to be included, to be ranked, or to have its prices shown in a particular way. We don’t accept payment for coverage, and we don’t let businesses review or approve pages about them before publication.

If a company contacts us about its prices, we treat it like any other correction request. We check the claim against the company’s published pricing or another verifiable source, and we change the page only if the evidence supports it.

Advertising and content

The site is funded by display ads served through Google AdSense. Google chooses which ads appear, based on its own systems. We don’t select individual advertisers, and advertisers have no access to our data or drafts.

Ads are shown in separate ad slots and are never placed inside a price table or formatted to look like our content. If we add affiliate links in the future, they will be labeled where they appear, and they will not change the figures or sources on the page.

How pages are made

Every page starts from data. The prices and wages on a page are read from data records that hold the source, the retrieval date, and the collection method. Our methodology page describes those records and how they are updated.

The written parts of a page explain what the numbers mean: what drives a cost up or down, how prices differ by state, and what to ask a provider before you buy.

Our use of AI tools

We use AI tools in two places: to help collect candidate figures from sources, and to draft the explanatory text on a page.

The numbers on a page never come from the text. Every price, wage, and range is a data record with a named source, a link, and a retrieval date, and the text pulls its figures from those records. Before a record is published, it is checked against the source page it cites. Figures that can’t be matched to their source are dropped, and a page without enough verified figures stays unpublished. Draft text that contradicts the data is rewritten.

Health cost pages

Pages about medical, dental, and cosmetic costs can affect decisions about health and money, so they follow stricter rules:

• Each page draws on at least two independent sources. A clinic or practice advertising its own prices doesn’t count as an independent source.
• The pages cover cost and billing only: what a price usually includes, what changes it, and what to ask before you pay. They don’t say who is a good candidate for a procedure, what results to expect, or which treatment is better.
• The pages are not reviewed by a clinician, and they are not medical advice. Questions about whether a treatment is right for you belong with a licensed dentist, doctor, or surgeon.

We don’t currently publish insurance premium pages or prescription drug prices.

Sources

We prefer primary sources: government statistical agencies, official fee schedules, and companies’ own pricing pages. When we cite a survey or report from an industry group, we name it and link to it where possible. We don’t present one company’s marketing claim as a market price.

Corrections

When we find an error or a reader reports one, we check it against the source. If the figure is wrong, we fix the data record, which updates every page that uses it, and the page’s “Updated” date changes to reflect the corrected figure.

Typos and broken links are fixed as they’re found. A fix to a figure keeps the old value in that record’s history, so we can always see what a page showed before.

To report an error, email [email protected] with the page URL and what you believe is wrong.