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Rhode Island Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Rhode Island — drawn from 8 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 Rhode Island, 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
IUD Insertion$193 – $1,230$4016
Newborn Circumcision$1,254 – $3,864$3,0836
Complete Blood Count (CBC) with Differential$9 – $21$117
Chemotherapy Infusion (First Hour)$277 – $643$4746
Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) Treatment$614 – $1,418$9586
Office Visit, New Patient (Level 3)$75 – $169$1107
Lumpectomy (Partial Mastectomy)$3,305 – $7,231$4,8876
Echocardiogram (Complete with Doppler)$504 – $1,078$7546

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 Rhode Island, the cash price is a fraction of the list price.

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
MRI Brain without Contrast$1,184$3,383
CT Head without Contrast$493$1,409
Critical Care, First Hour$1,746$4,650
MRI Brain with and without Contrast$1,668$4,440
MRI Cervical Spine (Neck) without Contrast$887$2,100
MRI Knee without Contrast$887$2,100

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Rhode Island

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
Lumpectomy (Partial Mastectomy)$4,8876
Newborn Circumcision$3,0836
Breast Biopsy (Ultrasound-guided)$2,1226
Bone Marrow Biopsy$2,1026
Skin Lesion Removal (Benign, up to 0.5 cm)$2,0376
Nuclear Cardiac Stress Test$1,9286

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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