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Maryland Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Maryland — drawn from 29 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 Maryland, 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
Spirometry (Breathing Test)$120 – $504$3068
Chest X-ray (2 Views)$71 – $234$1639
Sleep Study (In-lab Polysomnography)$752 – $2,446$1,3577
Echocardiogram (Complete with Doppler)$134 – $427$2449
Initial Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation$281 – $856$5107
Office Visit, Established Patient (Level 3)$98 – $290$2068
PET/CT Scan, Whole Body$3,358 – $9,919$6,6647
Breast Biopsy (Ultrasound-guided)$951 – $2,803$2,0226

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 Maryland, the cash price is a fraction of the list price.

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
Echocardiogram (Complete with Doppler)$365$384
CT Cardiac Calcium Scoring$93$97
Vitamin D Blood Test$40$41
Newborn Circumcision$520$531
Complete Blood Count (CBC) with Differential$27$27
Individual Therapy Session (45 Minutes)$298$304

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Maryland

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
PET/CT Scan, Whole Body$6,6647
Nuclear Cardiac Stress Test$2,0638
Breast Biopsy (Ultrasound-guided)$2,0226
MRI Abdomen with and without Contrast$1,3688
Sleep Study (In-lab Polysomnography)$1,3577
Diagnostic Mammogram (Both Breasts)$1,1358

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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