Columbus → Emergency room visit, moderate
Emergency room visit, moderate in Columbus
No hospital in Columbus publishes a self-pay price for this one. Where a hospital publishes a negotiated range instead, it is shown below.
For scale: Medicare pays hospitals about $279 for this as an outpatient service — the 2026 national rate, before local wage adjustment.
These prices are not directly comparable
Hospitals bill this one at different levels. One may publish a single operating-room line while another publishes the whole surgical episode — both honest, both under the same billing code. So the figures below are what each hospital publishes, not a like-for-like comparison, and we do not compute a "cheapest" from them. Why →
| Hospital | Self-pay price | List price | Insurers pay | Publishes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Carmel East mountcarmelhealth.com · Columbus | $164–$1,740 varies | $1,900 | $38–$1,939 | C |
| Mount Carmel St. Ann's mountcarmelhealth.com · Westerville | $164–$2,628 varies | $1,900 | $44–$1,939 | C |
| Mount Carmel Grove City Mount Carmel Health System (Trinity Health) · Grove City | $164–$1,734 varies | $1,900 | $44–$1,939 | C |
| Nationwide Children's Hospital nationwidechildrens.org · Columbus | $264–$837 varies | $930 | $64–$911 | C |
| Riverside Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus | $1,136 | $1,748 | $263 | C |
| Grant Medical Center OhioHealth · Columbus | $1,136 | $1,748 | $263 | C |
| Dublin Methodist Hospital OhioHealth · Dublin | $1,136 | $1,748 | $263 | C |
| Doctors Hospital OhioHealth · Columbus | $1,136 | $1,748 | $269 | C |
| Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital mountcarmelhealth.com · New Albany | $1,235–$1,581 varies | $1,900 | $231–$1,939 | C |
| Diley Ridge Medical Center mountcarmelhealth.com · Canal Winchester | $1,235–$1,615 varies | $1,900 | $231–$1,939 | C |
| Mount Carmel Dublin mountcarmelhealth.com · Dublin | $1,235–$1,555 varies | $1,900 | $231–$1,939 | C |
| Ohio State University Hospitals wexnermedical.osu.edu · Columbus | not published | $1,414 | $3–$1,414 | F |
| James Cancer Hospital OSU Wexner Medical Center · Columbus | not published | $1,414 | $310–$1,315 | F |
What these three numbers mean
Self-pay price is what the hospital says it charges someone paying directly. It is the number to ask for by name. List price is the undiscounted charge almost nobody pays. Insurers pay is the range of procedure-specific negotiated rates in the file — useful mainly to see whether the self-pay price is above or below what insurers get.
Some hospitals attach one flat rate to nearly their whole price list. Those are excluded here, because a number identical for a colonoscopy and a blood test says nothing about either. More on that →
Billing code CPT 99283 —
Emergency department visit, moderate. Every price on this page is read from the hospital's
own published file; open a hospital to see which file and when it was read.