Office visit, new patient (level 5) Cost in Austin, TX

Prices at 8 hospitals in Austin, TX, from their machine-readable files. Here the median cash price is $428 — 35% above the US median ($318), roughly 1.8× the Medicare rate.

Lowest cash prices

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Hospital	Location	Cash	Insurer	CMS rating	ER wait	Readmit
Texas Childrens Hospital North Austin Campus	Austin, TX	$370	$353	—	—	—
North Austin Medical Center	Austin, TX	$487	$365	★ 3/5	163 min	—

CMS rating = overall hospital star rating (1–5); ER wait = median minutes in the emergency department; Readmit = 30-day readmission rate (lower is better) — all from Medicare’s Care Compare; “—” = not reported. Data last updated October 2026. Prices from hospitals’ machine-readable files (45 CFR §180); Medicare benchmark from CMS PFS/CLFS/IPPS. Prices below 15% of the median are excluded as likely partial or mis-coded charges. Estimates — confirm with the hospital. Report an incorrect price.

Price comparison (median)

Chargemaster (list price)

$520

Cash / self-pay

$428

Insurer-negotiated

$582

Medicare pays

$237

$382$475

Median cash $428 · Medicare $237 · bar = typical cash range (10th–90th percentile)

Is this a fair price?

1× Medicarefair ≈2×5×+

Typical cash price here is $428 — about 1.8× the Medicare rate ($237). Reasonable. A fair cash price is usually within ~2× Medicare ($474).

💡 Asking for the cash price instead of the $520 list price could save about $91 (18%).

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Doctors who perform this in Austin

Clinicians who reported the most Medicare volume for this service locally. This reflects Original Medicare activity only and is a volume signal, not a quality ranking.

Clinician	Specialty	Location	Medicare services
Farhana Bashar, MD	Internal Medicine	Austin, TX	244
Richard Garza, MD	Radiation Oncology	Austin, TX	186
Gina Hauser, APRN	Nurse Practitioner	Austin, TX	171
Punit Chadha, MD	Medical Oncology	Austin, TX	169
Lauren Thomas, AGACNP-BC	Nurse Practitioner	Austin, TX	159
Jay Messer, MD	Radiation Oncology	Austin, TX	155
Tracy Thomas, NP	Nurse Practitioner	Austin, TX	149
John Allison, MD	Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	Austin, TX	131
Punam Bhakta, FNP-C	Nurse Practitioner	Austin, TX	129
Amin Al-Ahmad, MD	Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology	Austin, TX	123
Sara Strother, FNP-C	Nurse Practitioner	Austin, TX	123
Haixin Li, M.D.	Internal Medicine	Austin, TX	122

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