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Laser treatment after cataract surgery 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 Joseph Medical Center sjmctx.org · Houston $3,952 $3,952 $324–$3,952 B
St Luke's Patients Medical Center chisaintjosephhealth.org · Pasadena not published $198–$7,221 C
Hca Houston Healthcare Southeast hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Pasadena not published $204–$11,500 C
Hca Houston Healthcare Kingwood hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Kingwood not published $204–$4,690 C
Hca Houston Healthcare Medical Center hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Houston not published $204–$11,500 C
Texas Orthopedic Hospital texasorthopedic.com · Houston not published $204–$4,690 C
Womans Hospital of Texas,the womanshospital.com · Houston not published $204–$4,690 C
Hca Houston Healthcare Clear Lake hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Webster not published $204–$11,500 C
Hca Houston Healthcare West hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Houston not published $204–$4,690 C
St Luke's Hospital at the Vintage chisaintjosephhealth.org · Houston not published $208–$7,221 B
Hca Houston Healthcare Tomball hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Tomball not published $208–$4,690 D
Baylor St Lukes Medical Center chisaintjosephhealth.org · Houston not published $219–$7,221 B
Hca Houston Healthcare Northwest hcahoustonhealthcare.com · Houston not published $224–$4,690 C
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Nassau Bay not published $294–$5,545 B
Houston Methodist Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Houston not published $552–$5,545 B
Memorial Hermann Hospital System memorialhermann.org · Houston not published $552–$1,050 C
Memorial Hermann - Texas Medical Center memorialhermann.org · Houston not published $552–$1,050 C
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Houston not published $552–$5,545 B
Houston Methodist West Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Houston not published $552–$5,545 B
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Baytown not published $552–$5,545 B
Houston Methodist Cypress Hospital houstonmethodist.org · Cypress not published $552–$5,545 B

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 66821 — YAG laser capsulotomy. 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.