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Joint injection in Orange County
No hospital in Orange County 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 $314 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Providence St. Joseph Hospital providence.org · Orange | $80–$458 varies | $419 | — | C |
| Providence St. Jude Medical Center providence.org · Fullerton | $377 | $786 | $336–$18,394 | C |
| Huntington Beach Hospital hbhospital.org · Huntington Beach | $392 | $1,585 | $66–$589 | B |
| West Anaheim Medical Center westanaheimmedctr.com · Anaheim | $392 | $1,585 | $66–$609 | B |
| La Palma Intercommunity Hospital lapalmaintercommunityhospital.com · La Palma | $392 | $1,585 | $66–$589 | B |
| Garden Grove Hospital & Medical Center gardengrovehospital.com · Garden Grove | $392 | $1,585 | $66–$609 | B |
| Memorialcare Saddleback Medical Center memorialcare.org · Laguna Hills | $750–$6,625 varies | $6,625 | $257–$4,134 | C |
| Memorialcare Orange Coast Medical Center memorialcare.org · Fountain Valley | $750–$6,625 varies | $6,625 | $355–$3,165 | C |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Orange County - Anaheim healthy.kaiserpermanente.org · Anaheim | $952 | $1,830 | $293–$871 | B |
| Anaheim Global Medical Center anaheimglobalmedicalcenter.com · Anaheim | $967–$2,112 varies | $967 | $46–$5,931 | C |
| Chapman Global Medical Center chapmanglobalmedicalcenter.com · Orange | $967–$2,112 varies | $967 | $55–$5,931 | C |
| Coastal Communities Hospital southcoastglobalmedicalcenter.com · Santa Ana | $967–$2,112 varies | $967 | $55–$16,000 | C |
| Orange County Global Medical Center orangecountyglobalmedicalcenter.com · Santa Ana | $967–$2,112 varies | $967 | $55–$12,381 | C |
| Children's Hospital at Mission missionhealth.org · Mission Viejo | $1,035 | $1,035 | $190–$10,074 | D |
| Providence Mission Hospital providence.org · Mission Viejo | $1,105 | $2,303 | $336–$11,662 | C |
| Children's Hospital of Orange County choc.org · Orange | $1,212–$1,767 varies | $1,212 | $46–$5,374 | D |
| Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian hoag.org · Newport Beach | not published | — | $395–$10,342 | D |
| Uci Health - Los Alamitos ucihealth.org · Los Alamitos | not published | — | $395–$8,064 | C |
| Uci Health - Fountain Valley ucihealth.org · Fountain Valley | not published | — | $395–$8,064 | C |
| Hoag Orthopedic Institute hoag.org · Irvine | not published | — | $395–$10,342 | D |
| Anaheim Community Hospital, Llc anaheimcommunityhospital.com · Anaheim | not published | $667 | — | 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 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.