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Joint injection in Houston
No hospital in Houston publishes a self-pay price for this one. Where a hospital publishes a negotiated range instead, it is shown below.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Luke's Patients Medical Center chisaintjosephhealth.org · Pasadena | $335–$335 varies | $957 | $23–$5,160 | C |
| Legent North Houston Surgical Hospital legenthealth.com · Tomball | $463 | $1,800 | $65–$1,200 | C |
| Elite Hospital Kingwood kingwood247er.com · Kingwood | $734 | $1,468 | $138–$184 | C |
| Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital memorialhermann.org · Houston | $932 | $2,912 | $308–$586 | C |
| Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital memorialhermann.org · Humble | $932 | $2,912 | $308–$586 | C |
| Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center memorialhermann.org · Houston | $1,140 | $3,561 | $308–$586 | C |
| Memorial Hermann Hospital System memorialhermann.org · Houston | $1,140 | $3,561 | $308–$586 | C |
| Texas Childrens Hospital shrinerschildrens.org · Houston | $1,164 | $1,164 | $16–$988 | C |
| St Joseph Medical Center sjmctx.org · Houston | $1,188–$1,783 varies | $1,783 | $65–$1,783 | B |
| Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Nassau Bay | $1,337 | $2,674 | $18–$7,542 | B |
| Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Cypress | $1,337 | $2,674 | $45–$7,542 | B |
| Houston Methodist West Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Houston | $1,337 | $2,674 | $45–$7,542 | B |
| Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Baytown | $1,337 | $2,674 | $45–$7,542 | B |
| Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Houston | $1,337 | $2,674 | $45–$7,542 | B |
| St Luke's Hospital at the Vintage chisaintjosephhealth.org · Houston | $1,724 | $4,925 | $23–$5,160 | B |
| Baylor St Lukes Medical Center chisaintjosephhealth.org · Houston | $1,724 | $4,925 | $29–$5,160 | B |
| Houston Methodist Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Houston | $2,100 | $4,199 | $45–$7,542 | B |
| East Houston Medical Center advanceddallas.com · Houston | $2,390–$3,982 varies | $2,390 | $218–$387 | C |
| Hca Houston Healthcare Medical Center hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Houston | not published | — | $27–$5,841 | C |
| Texas Orthopedic Hospital texasorthopedic.com · Houston | not published | — | $27–$5,841 | C |
| Hca Houston Healthcare Southeast hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Pasadena | not published | — | $27–$5,841 | C |
| Hca Houston Healthcare Clear Lake hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Webster | not published | — | $27–$5,841 | C |
| Hca Houston Healthcare West hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Houston | not published | — | $27–$5,841 | C |
| Womans Hospital of Texas,the womanshospital.com · Houston | not published | — | $27–$5,841 | C |
| Hca Houston Healthcare Kingwood hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Kingwood | not published | — | $27–$5,841 | C |
| Hca Houston Healthcare Tomball hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Tomball | not published | — | $28–$5,841 | D |
| Hca Houston Healthcare Northwest hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Houston | not published | — | $30–$5,841 | C |
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 20610 —
Joint injection (major joint). 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.