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Cash prices Nashville, TN Outpatient

Cheapest hospitals in Nashville, TN without insurance

Of 21 hospitals in the Nashville, TN area we can compare, Saint Thomas Hospital for Specialty Surgery (Nashville) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 23% below the Tennessee median across 452 procedures. The ranking compares each hospital's own cash price with the median of all hospitals in its state, procedure by procedure.

Collected Nov 13, 2026 Hospitals with at least 30 comparable procedures

HospitalTypical price vs stateBelow medianAbove median
1. Saint Thomas Hospital for Specialty Surgery Nashville 23% below 301 of 452 147 of 452
2. Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital Lebanon at median 185 of 458 224 of 458
3. Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital Murfreesboro at median 160 of 342 147 of 342
4. Saint Thomas West Hospital Harding Pk Nashville at median 151 of 338 154 of 338
5. Stones River Hospital Woodbury at median 106 of 307 152 of 307
6. Maury Regional Hospital Columbia 3% above 23 of 57 30 of 57
7. Macon Community Hospital Lafayette 11% above 115 of 290 174 of 290
8. Sumner Regional Medical Center Gallatin 52% above 65 of 426 357 of 426
9. Metro Nashville General Hospital Nashville 62% above 78 of 475 393 of 475
10. Williamson Medical Center Franklin 69% above 25 of 309 284 of 309
11. Riverview Regional Medical Center Carthage 85% above 28 of 370 341 of 370
12. Trousdale Medical Center Hartsville 200% above 1 of 325 324 of 325
13. Tristar Stonecrest Medical Center Smyrna 505% above 1 of 290 289 of 290
14. Tristar Northcrest Medical Center Springfield 538% above 3 of 287 284 of 287
15. Tristar Southern Hills Medical Center Antioch 713% above 3 of 293 290 of 293
16. Tristar Horizon Medical Center Dickson 804% above 6 of 294 287 of 294
17. Tristar Summit Medical Center Mt Juliet 834% above 1 of 306 305 of 306
18. Tristar Skyline Medical Center Nashville 922% above 1 of 293 292 of 293
19. Tristar Centennial Medical Center Nashville 923% above 0 of 311 311 of 311
20. Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center Hendersonville 930% above 1 of 296 295 of 296
21. Tristar Ashland City Medical Center Ashland City 1308% above 4 of 252 248 of 252
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: Saint Thomas Hickman Hospital (Centerville) — its price file lists no cash price (all US hospitals without one).

Procedure costs in the Nashville, TN 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.