CashPrice · what hospitals actually charge cash-pay patients — normalized from the federal price-transparency files

What does it actually cost cash, without insurance?

Hospitals are federally required to publish a machine-readable file of every price — including the cash / self-pay rate. The files are huge and unreadable, so almost nobody uses them. We normalize them into one clean answer per procedure. 41 hospitals 30 procedures 985 stated cash prices

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Common procedures

MRI of the Brain (without contrast)

$1,719

MRI of the Brain (with & without contrast)

$2,915.84

MRI of the Lower Back (lumbar spine, without contrast)

$1,929.84

MRI of the Neck (cervical spine, without contrast)

$1,935.84

MRI of the Knee (without contrast)

$1,850.85

MRI of the Shoulder (without contrast)

$1,644.67

MRI of the Abdomen (without contrast)

$1,692.60

CT Scan of the Head (without contrast)

$1,138

CT Scan of the Abdomen & Pelvis (with contrast)

$2,362

CT Scan of the Chest (without contrast)

$1,173.60

Ultrasound of the Abdomen (complete)

$740.25

Pelvic Ultrasound (complete)

$585.75

Screening Mammogram (bilateral)

$275.40

Chest X-Ray (2 views)

$282

Diagnostic Colonoscopy

$1,541.44

Colonoscopy with Biopsy

$1,673.20

Colonoscopy with Polyp Removal (snare)

$1,759.80

Upper Endoscopy (EGD, diagnostic)

$1,418.88

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