Why this price record exists
Procedure Cost Checker is an independent 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
6 guides, each with its sources on the page , 7 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.
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.