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Delaware Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Delaware — drawn from 6 hospitals' machine-readable files. Figures are medians with robust 10th–90th-percentile ranges across hospitals in the state.

The same procedure, wildly different prices

Even within Delaware, the negotiated price at a pricier hospital can be many times what a cheaper one charges — for the same service.

ProcedureTypical range (10th–90th pct)MedianHospitals
Urinalysis with Microscopy$7 – $68$186
Comprehensive Metabolic Panel$23 – $209$606
Basic Metabolic Panel$19 – $156$486
Pacemaker Insertion (Dual Chamber)$3,791 – $30,827$12,4706
Complete Blood Count (CBC) with Differential$10 – $66$306
Echocardiogram (Complete with Doppler)$725 – $4,040$8746
Vitamin D Blood Test$32 – $175$906
PSA Prostate Cancer Screening$19 – $106$586

Cash can beat the list price

The “gross” charge is the hospital's list price; the cash price is what many will accept from a self-pay patient. For these procedures in Delaware, the cash price is a fraction of the list price.

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
Basic Metabolic Panel$138$223
Critical Care, First Hour$2,815$4,327
CT Abdomen and Pelvis with Contrast$3,033$4,590
Chest X-ray (2 Views)$264$396
PET/CT Scan, Whole Body$4,446$6,593
MRI Knee without Contrast$2,202$3,224

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Delaware

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
Pacemaker Insertion (Dual Chamber)$12,4706
Cardiac Catheterization (Left Heart)$7,0266
PET/CT Scan, Whole Body$3,9846
Breast Biopsy (Ultrasound-guided)$2,9356
Newborn Circumcision$2,5226
Bone Marrow Biopsy$2,5116

Medians and percentiles are computed across each hospital's representative facility price, from its latest machine-readable file. See methodology for how prices are derived.

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