Findlay Area Hospital Prices
Cash and insurance-negotiated prices at hospitals in and around Findlay, OH. Part of all Ohio hospital prices.
Typical commercial prices here are +23% above the fair benchmark (1.23×) even after accounting for local nurse/doctor wages and patient complexity.
Most affordable Ohio hospital: Blanchard Valley Hospital (Findlay) at 1.23× the fair price (1% below benchmark).
Loss-Leader / Captive Ancillary Cross-Subsidizer
Blanchard Valley Hospital prices routine shoppable procedures near 1.4× Medicare (p50 1.09×) while skewing captive emergency, lab, and upper-quartile codes to 1.6× Medicare (p75 1.64×, +50% 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 0.85× the peer BaseRate benchmark
- Self-pay cash beats commercial insurance on 7% of shoppable procedures (25/100 Cash Honesty)
- CMS clinical safety score (69/100 safety score) with 70% patient recommendation
- IRS 501(c)(3) charity care provides free care up to 200% FPL and discounted care up to 400% FPL (32.8% AGB cap)
Where You Can Get Burned (Markup Traps)
- Even at low-cost facilities (1.23× 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 (0.8×) & laboratory (1.6×) services average 1.14× higher multiples than routine shoppable care (1.4×)
- Upper-quartile procedures (Q75 1.64×) jump +50% above the median procedure ratio (Q50 1.09×)
- Consolidated metro market (HHI 8,685) 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 Findlay 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.
- Blanchard Valley Hospital · Findlay 69/100 79 priced 1.23× fair
- Fostoria Community Hospital · Fostoria 85/100 87 priced 1.32× fair
Compare prices by procedure in Findlay
Local prices across Findlay-area hospitals for 70 procedures.
- Blood antibody screen
- Blood test, PSA (prostate screen)
- Blood test, average blood sugar (A1c)
- Blood test, basic metabolic panel
- Blood test, cholesterol (lipid panel)
- Blood test, clotting time (PTT)
- Blood test, complete blood count (CBC)
- Blood test, comprehensive metabolic panel
- Blood test, creatinine (kidney)
- Blood test, glucose (blood sugar)
- Blood test, magnesium
- Blood test, sodium
- Blood test, thyroid (TSH)
- Blood test, urea nitrogen (BUN, kidney)
- Blood test, vitamin B12
- Blood test, vitamin D
- Blood transfusion
- Breathing treatment (nebulizer)
- CT scan, abdomen and pelvis (no contrast)
- CT scan, abdomen and pelvis (with contrast)
- 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
- Diagnostic mammogram (both breasts)
- Digestive disorders treatment (inpatient stay)
- Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound)
- Electrocardiogram (EKG, tracing only)
- Heart stent placement (inpatient stay)
- Hepatitis C antibody test
- Hospital observation (per hour)
- MRI, brain (no contrast)
- MRI, brain (with and without contrast)
- MRI, knee or other leg joint
- MRI, lower back (no contrast)
- 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 (functional capacity test)
- Physical therapy (gait training)
- Physical therapy (manual therapy)
- Physical therapy (neuromuscular re-education)
- Physical therapy (therapeutic exercise)
- Screening mammogram (both breasts)
- Sepsis treatment (inpatient stay)
- Sleep study (overnight, in lab)
- Speech therapy (language evaluation)
- Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis)
- Ultrasound, abdomen (complete)
- Ultrasound, abdomen (limited)
- Ultrasound, leg veins (duplex)
- Ultrasound, pelvis
- Ultrasound, thyroid and neck
- Urinalysis (automated, with microscopy)
- X-ray, ankle
- X-ray, chest (single view)
- X-ray, chest (two views)
- X-ray, foot
- X-ray, hand
- X-ray, hip
- X-ray, lower back
- X-ray, neck (cervical spine)
- X-ray, pelvis
- X-ray, shoulder
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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.
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 →