Cash-pay prices / Procedures & surgery
Procedures & surgery: what Montana hospitals charge
Hospital pricing for the procedures people are quoted most often.
Meanwhile, what a hospital charges
Not CoreMed prices and not clinic prices. These are what Montana hospitals ask a self-paying patient, taken from their own federally required price files. They are here as the benchmark the numbers above are worth comparing against.
| Procedure | Cheapest hospital | Most expensive | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colonoscopy, diagnostic 8 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $396 | $2,576 | 6.5× |
| Upper endoscopy with biopsy 8 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $438 | $5,304 | 12.1× |
| Knee arthroscopy with meniscus repair 6 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $1,142 | $16,955 | 14.8× |
| Cataract surgery with lens implant 4 hospitals publishing a self-pay price | $1,616 | $7,297 | 4.5× |
Self-pay prices from each hospital's machine-readable file, extracted September 2026. Hospitals publishing no separate self-pay rate are excluded, so every figure is like for like. See the full comparison.
Members usually pay less than this
Labs, X-rays and prescriptions are part of a CoreMed membership rather than a separate bill. If you're regularly paying cash for the things on this page, the membership is often the cheaper path.
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