Texas hospital prices
Know what a hospital charges before you go
Cash prices and insurer rates for 16 common scans, tests and procedures at 141 Texas hospitals, from the price files hospitals must publish by law.
Lower back MRI, Houston: cash price
CPT 72148, outpatient facility charge. From each hospital’s price file, checked October 29, 2026.
How it works
- Pick a procedure and a city
MRI, CT, ultrasound, colonoscopy, mammogram or lab tests, in Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin or McAllen.
- Compare every hospital
The cash price, the list price and what insurers pay, side by side, with the date each hospital published its prices.
- Check your plan’s price
Your own plan’s rate at each hospital, what you’d pay after your deductible, and whether cash is cheaper.
Cash or your insurance plan?Your plan pays a different rate at each hospital. See your plan’s own rate at every hospital nearby, next to the cash price, and what you would pay after your deductible. See an example report.
See what your plan paysProcedures
- Brain MRI
CPT 70551 · cash $232–11,093
- Lower back MRI
CPT 72148 · cash $232–14,522
- Knee MRI
CPT 73721 · cash $232–15,787
- Shoulder MRI
CPT 73221 · cash $232–14,693
- Head CT
CPT 70450 · cash $102–6,358
- Abdomen and pelvis CT
CPT 74177 · cash $300–37,077
- Abdominal ultrasound
CPT 76700 · cash $102–6,569
- Screening mammogram
CPT 77067 · cash $67–1,193
- Colonoscopy
CPT 45378 · cash $519–7,164
- Screening colonoscopy
CPT G0121 · cash $446–2,600
- Upper endoscopy
CPT 43235 · cash $426–9,353
- Chest X-ray
CPT 71046 · cash $80–1,995
- Metabolic panel
CPT 80053 · cash $10–837
- CBC blood test
CPT 85025 · cash $7–311
- Lipid panel
CPT 80061 · cash $13–944
- A1c test
CPT 83036 · cash $9–297
Cities
- Houston
40 hospitals with prices
- Dallas–Fort Worth
70 hospitals with prices
- San Antonio
5 hospitals with prices
- Austin
19 hospitals with prices
- McAllen
7 hospitals with prices
Why prices differ so much
Each hospital sets its own list price and its own cash discount, and negotiates a different rate with every insurance plan. Federal law (45 CFR Part 180) requires hospitals to publish all of them. We bring them together for each procedure and city, with the date each hospital published its prices. Where the prices come from.
Outpatient facility charge only. These are the hospital’s own published prices for the facility part of the visit. The doctor’s or radiologist’s fee is billed separately and isn’t included, and your final bill can differ (extra tests, contrast, supplies). Not medical or insurance advice.
Guides
- Cash price or insurance: how to compare
When a hospital’s cash price can be lower than what you’d pay through your insurance plan, and the questions to ask before you choose.
- What a hospital facility charge covers (and what it doesn’t)
The hospital price for a scan or procedure is the facility charge. What it includes, what is billed separately, and why the final bill can differ.
- How to ask a hospital for its cash price
What to say when you call a hospital for a self-pay price: the code to quote, what to ask about separate bills, and getting it in writing.
- Good Faith Estimates and the $400 dispute rule
Uninsured and self-pay patients can get a written estimate and dispute a bill $400 or more above it. Who qualifies, the 120-day deadline and the $25 fee.