Columbus, Ohio → Emergency room visit, moderate
Emergency room visit, moderate in Columbus, Ohio
No hospital in Columbus, Ohio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Carmel East Mount Carmel Health System (Trinity Health) · Columbus | $164–$1,740 varies | $1,900 | $38–$1,939 | C |
| Mount Carmel St. Ann's Mount Carmel Health System (Trinity Health) · 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 Nationwide Children's · Columbus | $264–$837 varies | $930 | $64–$911 | C |
| Grant Medical Center OhioHealth · Columbus | $1,136 | $1,748 | $263 | C |
| Riverside Methodist Hospital 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 |
| Ohio State University Hospitals OSU Wexner Medical Center · 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.