Arkansas City Winfield Area Hospital Prices
Cash and insurance-negotiated prices at hospitals in and around Arkansas City Winfield, KS. Part of all Kansas hospital prices.
Typical commercial prices here are +25% above the fair benchmark (1.25×) even after accounting for local nurse/doctor wages and patient complexity.
Most affordable Kansas hospital: Sck Health (Arkansas City) at 1.25× the fair price (1% below benchmark).
Loss-Leader / Captive Ancillary Cross-Subsidizer
Sck Health prices routine shoppable procedures near 1.4× Medicare (p50 1.10×) while skewing captive emergency, lab, and upper-quartile codes to 1.6× Medicare (p75 1.64×, +49% upper-tail jump). Patients scheduling elective outpatient care can capture competitive rates, but emergency and ancillary bills require strict line-item auditing.
Where They're Good (Patient & Payer Edge)
- Bottom-quartile procedures (Q25) price at 0.90× the peer BaseRate benchmark
- Self-pay cash beats commercial insurance on 19% of shoppable procedures (25/100 Cash Honesty)
- CMS clinical safety score (54/100 safety score) with 72% patient recommendation
- Binding Good Faith Estimate rights under 45 CFR § 149.610 protect self-pay patients before scheduling
Where You Can Get Burned (Markup Traps)
- Even at low-cost facilities (1.25× Fair BaseRate), out-of-network or unnegotiated chargemaster bills can exceed commercial medians — confirm in-network status or request a self-pay cash quote up front.
- Captive ER (2.0×) & laboratory (1.9×) services average 1.14× higher multiples than routine shoppable care (1.4×)
- Upper-quartile procedures (Q75 1.64×) jump +49% above the median procedure ratio (Q50 1.10×)
- Consolidated metro market (HHI 5,395) limits in-network hospital competition (Highly Concentrated Monopoly (>2,500))
Pre-scheduled outpatient procedures where patients can comparison-shop.
Emergency, inpatient DRG, lab, and specialty drug lines billed after admission.
Detects median-gaming when upper-quartile codes spike above the p50 median.
Hospitals in the Arkansas City Winfield area
Ranked by how their prices compare to the fair BaseRate — best value first. The × fair figure is geo-adjusted. Tap any hospital for its full price list.
- Sck Health · Arkansas City 59/100 90 priced 1.25× fair
- William Newton Hospital · Winfield 57/100 69 priced 2.59× fair
Compare prices by procedure in Arkansas City Winfield
Local prices across Arkansas City Winfield-area hospitals for 52 procedures.
- Blood antibody screen
- Blood test, basic metabolic panel
- Blood test, complete blood count (CBC)
- Blood test, comprehensive metabolic panel
- Blood test, ferritin (iron stores)
- Blood test, vitamin B12
- Blood transfusion
- Breathing treatment (nebulizer)
- Bunion correction surgery
- CT scan, chest (no contrast)
- CT scan, head (no contrast)
- CT scan, head (with and without contrast)
- CT scan, head (with contrast)
- CT scan, lower back (lumbar spine)
- CT scan, neck (cervical spine)
- CT scan, pelvis
- CT scan, sinuses
- Colonoscopy (diagnostic)
- Colonoscopy with biopsy
- Diagnostic mammogram (both breasts)
- Diagnostic procedure preparation
- Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound)
- Electrocardiogram (EKG, tracing only)
- Flu vaccine injection
- Hepatitis B immune globulin
- Hospital observation (per hour)
- Inguinal hernia repair
- MRI, brain (no contrast)
- MRI, knee or other leg joint
- MRI, lower back (no contrast)
- New patient office visit (30-44 min)
- Occupational therapy (self-care training)
- Occupational therapy (therapeutic activities)
- Office visit, established patient (20-29 min)
- Office visit, established patient (30-39 min)
- Orthotic fitting and training
- Physical therapy (gait training)
- Physical therapy (manual therapy)
- Physical therapy (neuromuscular re-education)
- Physical therapy (therapeutic exercise)
- Pneumonia vaccine injection
- Prostate cancer screening (blood test)
- Screening mammogram (both breasts)
- Speech therapy (group session)
- Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis)
- Ultrasound, abdomen (complete)
- Ultrasound, abdomen (limited)
- Ultrasound, leg veins (duplex)
- Ultrasound, pelvis
- Ultrasound, thyroid and neck
- Upper endoscopy with biopsy
- X-ray, lower back
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How to Pay Less Nearby: Freestanding Centers, Insurer Leverage & Outpatient Savings
Inpatient MS-DRG vs. Outpatient CPT Care-Setting Savings
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Prices are sourced from each hospital's federally-required public price file, most recently published October 2026. The BaseRate is a modeled fair-price estimate — not a bill or quote. How we build these numbers →