SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

New patient office visit, about 30 minutes in Joplin, MO-KS

Cash prices at 5 facilities across 5 cities for code 99203, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between May 1, 2025 and May 1, 2025.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin JOPLIN, MO
OP Visit Level III New Pt Mlp
$70.20 $108.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin JOPLIN, MO
OP Visit Level III New Pt Pf
$82.55 $127.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
OP Visit Level III New Pt Mlp
$132.60 $204.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Columbus COLUMBUS, KS
OP Visit Level III New Pt
$151.45 $233.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
OP Visit Level III New Pt
$154.05 $237.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Carthage CARTHAGE, MO
OP Visit Level III New Pt Pf
$156.00 $240.00 35%
file
Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin JOPLIN, MO
OP Visit Level III New Patient
$161.20 $248.00 35%
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Mercy Hospital Joplin dba Mercy Hospital Joplin JOPLIN, MO
OP Visit Level III New Pt
$161.20 $248.00 35%
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Mercy Specialty Hospital Southeast Kansas GALENA, KS
OP Visit Level III New Pt
$165.10 $254.00 35%
file
Freeman Neosho Hospital NEOSHO, MO
OFFIC/OUTPT VISIT E&M NEW
$288.00 $480.00 40% May 1, 2025
file

Outpatient: lowest $70.20, median $155.03, highest $288.00 — a 4.1× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $288.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

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