Houston Methodist Hospital

Houston Methodist Hospital publishes this pricing data as required by the CMS Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR § 180). The hospital's machine-readable file contains 29,585 items including procedures, drugs, and supplies.

Houston Methodist is a major academic medical centre located in the Texas Medical Center. The hospital's pricing file is published in JSON format and includes gross charges, cash/self-pay discounts, and payer-specific negotiated rates.

Founded in 1919, Houston Methodist Hospital is the flagship facility of the Houston Methodist system, which operates multiple hospitals and outpatient locations across the Greater Houston area. The hospital is consistently ranked among the top hospitals in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and has held the No. 1 ranking in Texas for multiple consecutive years.

Houston Methodist is nationally recognized for cardiovascular care, organ transplantation, neuroscience, and cancer treatment. Its location within the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, places it alongside other leading research and clinical institutions. The hospital is also a teaching hospital affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College.

We are not affiliated with Houston Methodist Hospital. This page presents publicly available pricing data published by the hospital in compliance with federal regulations.

Attested by Lisa Schillaci. File last updated: 2026-04-01. Accessed by us: 2026-04-11. We check for changes weekly.

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Houston Methodist's cash/self-pay prices are generally set at approximately 50% of the gross chargemaster rate. For example, an MRI of the brain carries a gross charge of $2,671 and a cash price of $1,335.5. This discount ratio is consistent across most procedures in the hospital's published file.

One notable pattern: the cash price for a screening colonoscopy at Houston Methodist is $519, which is lower than many of the insured negotiated rates for the same procedure. Several commercial insurance plans have negotiated rates above $5,545 for this code. This means that an uninsured patient paying the cash rate may pay less than what some insurers are billed for the identical service.

For ER visits, the spread between the lowest negotiated rate (Medicare managed care) and the highest commercial rate is substantial. A Level 5 ER visit ranges from $598.24 at the low end to $2,392.98 at the high end across different payers. The cash price of $2,376 falls near the top of that range. Patients with insurance may want to review payer-specific ER rates to understand their plan's negotiated amount.