Hospital Price Lookup

An independent medical-price data project

What does a medical procedure actually cost?

Pick a procedure and a U.S. metro to see the typical price across area hospitals — the insurer-negotiated price, the self-pay cash price where hospitals publish one, and every hospital side by side. Read straight from hospitals' own federal price-transparency files.

For example — Colonoscopy in Cincinnati, OH : typically $906 negotiated · list price $9,490 · cash $5,694

35 common procedures31 metros944 price pagesno signup

Three prices for the same procedure

A U.S. hospital publishes several prices for one service. Understanding the three you will see here is the whole game:

  1. Chargemaster (list) price. The undiscounted sticker rate. It can be many times the real price — and almost no one actually pays it.
  2. Negotiated price. What health insurers actually pay, on average. The most representative figure, shown on every page as a metro range.
  3. Self-pay cash price. What an uninsured patient paying directly is offered — where the hospital publishes one. Often lower than the negotiated price.

Browse by procedure

Each procedure page compares its price across every covered metro. Pick one to see the national picture, or open a metro below for local hospital-by-hospital prices.

Imaging & scans

Lab tests

Screenings

Heart & cardiac

Endoscopy

Surgery & procedures

Maternity & delivery

Other procedures

Browse by metro

Source: hospitals' own machine-readable Standard Charges files, published under the U.S. Hospital Price Transparency rule (45 CFR §180.50). Most recent hospital file in this dataset: July 2026. Prices are references, not quotes or bills, and never medical or financial advice — where a hospital reports no price, nothing is shown rather than a guess.

What this site is

Hospital Price Lookup is a free, no-signup reference for what common medical procedures actually cost. Pick a procedure and a U.S. metro to see the typical negotiated price across area hospitals, the genuine self-pay cash price where hospitals publish one, and a hospital-by-hospital table — all read directly from hospitals' federally-required price-transparency files. It covers 35 common procedures across 31 major metros. These are price references from public data — not a quote, a bill, or medical or financial advice.

Hospital Price Lookup is an independent data project. Every price comes from hospitals' own machine-readable Standard Charges files, required by the federal Hospital Price Transparency rule — nothing is estimated, modeled, or purchased, and where a hospital reports no price, nothing is shown rather than a guess. Read more on the how prices work page.