Price comparison
Compare hospital prices side by side
See what different hospitals charge for the same procedure or billing code — cash, list, and insurance-negotiated prices, lined up side by side. Every number comes straight from the hospital's own published price file.
Based on hospital-published prices verified from each hospital’s own file. Coverage expands as data is verified.
Two ways to compare
Compare by procedure
Start from a common procedure — MRI, CT scan, colonoscopy, mammogram, ER visit — and see every hospital that publishes a price for it, side by side.
Browse procedures →Compare by CPT / HCPCS code
Know the billing code? Look it up to compare exactly what hospitals disclose for that specific code — the most precise way to line up the same service.
Look up a code →See it in action
Real published cash prices for the same procedure across hospitals. The spread is exactly what the comparison tool surfaces — straight from the hospitals' files, not an estimate.
MRI — published cash price across hospitals
varies ~45×Range across 83 hospitals with disclosed prices. Not a bill estimate — what you owe depends on your insurance and care.
Lowest published MRI cash price by hospital
CT scan — published cash price across hospitals
varies ~63×Range across 90 hospitals with disclosed prices. Not a bill estimate — what you owe depends on your insurance and care.
Lowest published CT scan cash price by hospital
Colonoscopy — published cash price across hospitals
varies ~18×Range across 86 hospitals with disclosed prices. Not a bill estimate — what you owe depends on your insurance and care.
Lowest published Colonoscopy cash price by hospital
How price comparison works
- How do I compare hospital prices?
- Pick a procedure (like an MRI or colonoscopy) or a CPT/HCPCS billing code, and HospitalPricer lines up what each hospital published for that exact service — cash price, list price, and insurance-negotiated rates — in one table you can sort and filter. Every number links back to the hospital's own source file.
- Where do the prices come from?
- Federal price-transparency rules require hospitals to publish a machine-readable file of their standard charges. We parse those files directly. We never estimate, infer, or fill in a price a hospital did not disclose — a blank means the hospital did not publish it, not that the service is free.
- Is this the price I will pay?
- No. A comparison shows what hospitals have published, so you can see how widely prices vary and ask informed questions. Your actual bill depends on your insurance, the exact services performed, and the care setting — it is not a quote or a guarantee.
- Why do prices for the same procedure vary so much?
- Each hospital sets its own prices and negotiates separately with each insurer, so the published price for the same code can differ widely from one hospital to the next — and even between plans at a single hospital. Seeing that spread is exactly what this tool is for.