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Cash prices Boston, MA Outpatient

Cheapest hospitals in Boston, MA without insurance

Of 27 hospitals in the Boston, MA area we can compare, Boston Medical Center South (Brockton) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 63% below the Massachusetts median across 393 procedures. The ranking compares each hospital's own cash price with the median of all hospitals in its state, procedure by procedure.

Collected Nov 11, 2026 Hospitals with at least 30 comparable procedures

HospitalTypical price vs stateBelow medianAbove median
1. Boston Medical Center South Brockton 63% below 391 of 393 2 of 393
2. Boston Medical Center Brighton Boston 58% below 426 of 431 5 of 431
3. Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital Brockton 37% below 311 of 406 86 of 406
4. Boston Medical Center Boston 36% below 417 of 478 48 of 478
5. Melrosewakefield Healthcare Melrose 35% below 346 of 438 68 of 438
6. Southcoast Hospitals Group - Tobey Hospital Campus Wareham 33% below 310 of 384 40 of 384
7. Tufts Medical Center Boston 26% below 352 of 476 101 of 476
8. Lowell General Hospital Lowell 25% below 326 of 433 80 of 433
9. Cambridge Health Alliance Cambridge 14% below 280 of 473 170 of 473
10. Emerson Hospital Concord 1% below 221 of 430 190 of 430
11. Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Milton Milton 7% above 128 of 388 225 of 388
12. Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Plymouth Plymouth 14% above 125 of 390 235 of 390
13. Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham 23% above 90 of 391 284 of 391
14. Winchester Hospital Winchester 23% above 104 of 409 291 of 409
15. Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington Burlington 32% above 54 of 451 377 of 451
16. Mount Auburn Hospital Cambridge 43% above 46 of 394 339 of 394
17. Anna Jaques Hospital Newburyport 43% above 53 of 387 323 of 387
18. New England Baptist Hospital Boston 48% above 31 of 428 389 of 428
19. Shriners Childrens - Boston Boston 53% above 18 of 279 255 of 279
20. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston 64% above 46 of 433 375 of 433
21. Exeter Hospital Exeter 122% above 9 of 364 350 of 364
22. Frisbie Memorial Hospital Rochester 172% above 22 of 317 292 of 317
23. Seabrook Emergency Seabrook 205% above 4 of 313 295 of 313
24. Dover Emergency Room Dover 208% above 4 of 313 295 of 313
25. Portsmouth Regional Hospital Portsmouth 208% above 4 of 313 295 of 313
26. Parkland Medical Center Derry 254% above 2 of 322 318 of 322
27. Plaistow Fser Plaistow 255% above 2 of 322 318 of 322
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Typical price The median of this hospital's cash prices divided by the state median for the same codes: below means cheaper than a typical hospital in the state.
Below median For how many of the compared procedures this hospital is cheaper than the state median.
Above median For how many of the compared procedures this hospital is more expensive than the state median.

Not in the ranking: Merrimack Health Lawrence Hospital, Merrimack Health Methuen Hospital — their price files list no cash price (all US hospitals without one).

Procedure costs in the Boston, MA area

How the ranking works

  • For every procedure, we take the hospital's lowest outpatient cash price and compare it with the median of all hospitals in the same state that publish a cash price for the same code (only codes with at least three hospitals in the state).
  • "Typical price" is the middle of those comparisons: half of the hospital's procedures are cheaper than that, half are dearer. One expensive surgery does not outweigh a hundred cheap lab tests, and the other way round.
  • Hospitals with fewer than 30 comparable procedures are left out: with a handful of codes the place would be decided by chance.
  • Prices far below every other hospital are worth a phone call: some price files list only part of a service (for example the facility fee without the doctor's fee), or a discount that depends on income.
  • A low rank does not mean every price is low. Open the hospital to see the procedure you need, then ask its billing office for a Good Faith Estimate in writing.