Why this price record exists

Procedure Cost Checker is a price record for medical procedures Americans usually pay for themselves. It is run by Joseph Ellul.

Why this site exists

Anyone can find an average for a self-pay procedure; every cost blog in the trade publishes one. What is genuinely scarce is a figure a named provider will print before you are in the consultation room. So this site collects those, quotes them word for word from the page they appeared on, dates them, and records just as carefully the providers that publish nothing.

Who it is for

Patients pricing a procedure they will pay for themselves, who want to know what a normal published figure looks like before the first quote arrives.

What it does not do

  • We do not rank providers by quality or outcome. We publish a price record and hold no data that would make a merit ranking honest, so we do not pretend to one.
  • We do not estimate a price for a provider that publishes none. An absence is recorded as an absence with the date we checked.
  • We do not collect a diagnosis, symptoms or insurance claim details, so there is no medical record here to lose.
  • We do not present anything on this site as a good-faith estimate. That is a written duty your provider owes you under the No Surprises Act.

What is on this site

15 guides, each with its sources on the page , 143 answers to the questions around them , and the comparison.

  • Dental implants: A tooth implant is the one dental price where the number and the thing being sold come apart most easily.
  • Dental bridge: A dental bridge is four different products under one word, and the type you are a candidate for moves the price further than the practice you choose does.
  • LASIK and vision correction: LASIK is the one procedure on this site where the trade has largely settled on a comparable unit, the price per eye, and where the published figures are close enough to each other to be useful.
  • Bariatric surgery: Bariatric surgery is the procedure on this site where self-pay pricing is most developed, because the trade has spent years selling to patients whose insurers said no.
  • Gynecomastia surgery: Gynecomastia surgery is where the gap between a national average and a real quote is widest, and the reason is a technicality that costs patients thousands.
  • Hair transplant: A hair transplant is priced two ways in the United States and only one of them is a price you can act on.
  • Funerals and cremation: A funeral is one of the very few things Americans buy without shopping, usually within two days of a death, and it is one of the very few where federal law puts an itemised price list in your hand for the asking.
  • Hearing aids: A hearing aid is the rare piece of American healthcare with a sticker on it.
  • Egg freezing: Egg freezing is bought almost entirely with the patient's own money, which is why clinics publish a price for it when they publish nothing else.
  • Mobility and home medical equipment: A mobility scooter rents for $35 a day on the one dealer list in this record that publishes a rate, which is twenty-five days against the $849.00 a new four-wheel scooter is published at, so the crossover from renting to buying arrives inside a month.
  • Cosmetic dentistry: Porcelain veneers are published at $900 to $2,500 per tooth by the one US practice in this record that prints a veneer price list, an in-office whitening visit at $400 to $700 by the one that prints a whitening price, and bonding at $240 to $475 a tooth by a Nashville practice that itemises it by the kind of repair.
  • Mens health clinics: Five US testosterone and mens health clinics publish a monthly price of their own, and the median of those figures is $105.50 a month.
  • What liposuction costs: Most people asking how much liposuction costs have already found the national average and want to know whether it is the real number.
  • Chin liposuction: Chin liposuction, submental liposuction to a surgeon, is the one operation in this trade where the published national average is actively misleading.
  • Liposuction in Bangkok: Bangkok hospitals and clinics sell liposuction as a package: surgeon, anesthesia, theatre, one or more nights as an inpatient, and often transfers and an interpreter.

Where the figures come from

Provider prices verified against each provider's own published page on 2026-09-10 by infra/ingest/hubs/procedurecostchecker.com/ingest_providers.py: every quoted figure re-fetched and matched verbatim (hash-pinned); coverage evidenced by the provider's own priced page.

Who answers for it

Joseph Ellul, Editor and operator.

Reach us

Contact for a question about the site, or contact@procedurecostchecker.com. The legal terms are on Terms and Privacy.