Pricedle #9: guess the hospital cash price
One real price a day from a US hospital's own price file. Guess what the hospital charges a patient paying cash, without insurance, in six tries: each guess says higher or lower, and two hints unlock on the way. A new game every day at midnight Eastern.
What does Highlands Arh Regional Medical Center in Prestonsburg, Kentucky charge in cash for
CT scan of abdomen and pelvis, no contrast dye CPT 74176
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Highlands Arh Regional Medical Center lists $3,796.80 as its cash price for ct scan of abdomen and pelvis, no contrast dye (its lowest outpatient cash price for CPT 74176). The median in Kentucky is $2,431 across 77 hospitals, and $2,147 nationally; Medicare's 2026 rate for the same service is $244.
Every cash price at Highlands Arh Regional Medical Center · CT abdomen/pelvis, no contrast prices in Kentucky · across the US
How to play
- Type a price in dollars. Within 10% of the hospital's price wins.
- 🟨 within 25%, 🟧 within 50%, 🟥 further off; the arrow says whether to go higher or lower.
- After the second guess you see the national median, after the fourth the median in the state.
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The price is the hospital's discounted cash (self-pay) price, taken from the machine-readable file it must publish under 45 CFR 180.50. It is not a quote: the guide to paying cash says what to ask before treatment.