Montana prices
What it actually costs, hospital by hospital.
Every hospital in the country is now required to publish what it charges and what it gets paid, in a file almost nobody can read. We read Montana's and put them side by side. Free to use, no membership needed.
The short version
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At Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical Center, someone paying their own way is asked $2,134 for a head CT. No insurer pays that hospital more than $112 for it. Same hospital, same procedure, same billing code.
Across the state the gap is wider still: knee arthroscopy is listed at $1,230 at one Montana hospital and $16,955 at another.
Compare a procedure
19 procedures across 13 Montana hospitals.
Knee arthroscopy with meniscus repair
11 hospitals · from $1,142
Upper endoscopy with biopsy
12 hospitals · from $438
Colonoscopy, diagnostic
12 hospitals · from $396
Vaginal delivery, global care
8 hospitals · from $3,889
Cesarean delivery, global care
8 hospitals · from $4,229
Cataract surgery with lens implant
8 hospitals · from $1,616
CT, head, without contrast
13 hospitals · from $354
MRI, brain, without contrast
13 hospitals · from $672
Chest X-ray, two views
13 hospitals · from $98
MRI, lower back, without contrast
13 hospitals · from $658
CT, abdomen and pelvis, with contrast
13 hospitals · from $1,034
Ultrasound, abdomen, complete
13 hospitals · from $266
Mammogram, screening, both sides
13 hospitals · from $77
Comprehensive metabolic panel
12 hospitals · from $38
Lipid panel
12 hospitals · from $22
Hemoglobin A1C
12 hospitals · from $22
Complete blood count with differential
13 hospitals · from $22
Office visit, established patient, 20-29 min
10 hospitals · from $68
Emergency department visit, moderate
13 hospitals · from $203
Where these come from
Federal rules require every hospital to publish a machine-readable file of its standard charges, and to put an index file at its own domain saying where that file lives. Since April 2026 those files must contain the actual negotiated dollar amounts a hospital was paid, rather than estimates or formulas like "120% of Medicare".
We fetched Montana's, parsed them, and pulled the same billing codes from each. Every figure on these pages came from a hospital's own file. Nothing is modelled or estimated.
Hospitals included
Intermountain Health St. Vincent RegionalGreat Falls Clinic Medical CenterBozeman Health Deaconess HospitalCommunity Medical CenterProvidence St. Patrick HospitalBarrett Hospital & HealthCareLivingston HealthCareMarcus Daly Memorial HospitalClark Fork Valley HospitalSidney Health CenterBozeman Health Big Sky Medical CenterBeartooth Billings ClinicBig Horn County Memorial Hospital
When each hospital last updated its file. Beartooth, Red Lodge, September 2026; Community, Missoula, July 2026; Livingston, June 2026; Barrett, Dillon, June 2026; Sidney, April 2026; St. Patrick, Missoula, April 2026; Marcus Daly, Hamilton, March 2026; Clark Fork Valley, March 2026; Big Horn County, March 2026; St. Vincent, Billings, March 2026; Great Falls Clinic, February 2026; Big Sky Medical, November 2024; Bozeman Deaconess, November 2024.
Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical Center and Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital have not published a new file since November 2024. Those figures are the most recent the hospital publishes, and they are older than everyone else's here.
Paying for this yourself?
Two guides worth reading before you book anything, and neither needs a membership.