Cheapest hospitals in San Jose, CA without insurance
Of 5 hospitals in the San Jose, CA area we can compare, El Camino Hospital (Mountain View) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 27% below the California median across 244 procedures. The ranking compares each hospital's own cash price with the median of all hospitals in its state, procedure by procedure.
Collected Sep 25, 2026 Hospitals with at least 30 comparable procedures
| Hospital | Typical price vs state | Below median | Above median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. El Camino Hospital Mountain View | 27% below | 173 of 244 | 71 of 244 |
| 2. Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Jose San Jose | 28% above | 19 of 417 | 293 of 417 |
| 3. Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Santa Clara Santa Clara | 28% above | 19 of 417 | 293 of 417 |
| 4. Stanford Health Care Stanford | 38% above | 146 of 395 | 247 of 395 |
| 5. Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Palo Alto | 77% above | 79 of 257 | 178 of 257 |
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.