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Texas Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Texas — drawn from 210 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 Texas, 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
Allergy Skin Testing$17 – $4,107$933130
IUD Insertion$92 – $2,494$393152
Hemodialysis Treatment$92 – $1,751$40077
Comprehensive Metabolic Panel$11 – $155$22192
CT Chest without Contrast$113 – $1,478$419191
Skin Lesion Removal (Benign, up to 0.5 cm)$168 – $2,113$1,560171
Group Therapy Session$19 – $237$107120
CT Head without Contrast$113 – $1,374$417191

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

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
Total Knee Replacement$12,833$35,161
Cardiac Stress Test (Treadmill)$281$756
Colonoscopy with Biopsy$908$2,353
Laparoscopic Appendectomy$7,084$17,751
Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery$2,465$6,029
CT Chest without Contrast$1,556$3,683

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Texas

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
Cardiac Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation$27,570150
Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Posterior)$13,840140
Total Knee Replacement$13,738158
Total Hip Replacement$13,650157
Pacemaker Insertion (Dual Chamber)$12,333165
Coronary Angioplasty with Stent$12,222161

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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