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Cash prices Columbus, OH Outpatient

Cheapest hospitals in Columbus, OH without insurance

Of 20 hospitals in the Columbus, OH area we can compare, Fairfield Medical Center (Lancaster) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 48% below the Ohio median across 349 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. Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster 48% below 335 of 349 13 of 349
2. Grady Memorial Hospital Delaware 23% below 269 of 378 104 of 378
3. Mount Carmel Grove City Grove City 20% below 281 of 390 91 of 390
4. Berger Hospital Circleville 19% below 272 of 395 121 of 395
5. Mount Carmel Dublin Dublin 19% below 262 of 370 91 of 370
6. Mount Carmel St Ann's Westerville 19% below 272 of 380 90 of 380
7. Mount Carmel East Columbus 19% below 273 of 385 94 of 385
8. Diley Ridge Medical Center Canal Winchester 18% below 221 of 312 74 of 312
9. Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital New Albany 16% below 224 of 338 97 of 338
10. Dublin Methodist Hospital Dublin 10% below 243 of 395 131 of 395
11. Doctors Hospital Columbus 10% below 243 of 396 132 of 396
12. Grove City Methodist Grove City 10% below 243 of 396 132 of 396
13. Pickerington Methodist Hospital Pickerington 10% below 243 of 396 132 of 396
14. Riverside Methodist Hospital Columbus 10% below 243 of 396 132 of 396
15. Grant Medical Center Columbus 10% below 242 of 398 134 of 398
16. Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus 8% above 191 of 405 210 of 405
17. Morrow County Hospital Mount Gilead 10% above 143 of 325 182 of 325
18. Hocking Valley Community Hospital Logan 27% above 95 of 366 271 of 366
19. Galion Community Hospital Galion 65% above 57 of 401 335 of 401
20. Licking Memorial Hospital Newark 119% above 51 of 367 315 of 367
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: Arthur G James Cancer Hospital and Research Institute (Columbus), ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital of Lancaster, Ohio State University Hospitals (Columbus) — their price files list no cash price (all US hospitals without one).

Procedure costs in the Columbus, OH 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.