Even within the same city, hospitals can charge wildly different prices for similar care. We used Amino's Facility Cost Ratings™ — dollar signs that help employees identify cost-effective hospitals — to find the five most and least expensive hospitals in the Austin area. Below is a peek into our data.

The most expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have the highest Facility Cost Rating™ in Austin, averaged across all insurers.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Round Rock		A
Seton Medical Center Williamson		A
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Lakeway		C
Cedar Park Regional Medical Center		C
Seton Northwest Hospital		A

The least expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have lowest Facility Cost Rating™ in Austin, averaged across all insurers.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
St David's Medical Center		A
St David's Round Rock Medical Center		A
St David's South Austin Medical Center		A
University Medical Center at Brackenridge		B
Central Texas Medical Center		C

How we rate hospitals by cost

Amino’s Facility Cost Ratings™ are an easy to understand, symbolic system of dollar signs ranging from one dollar sign denoting “inexpensive” to four dollar signs denoting “expensive.”Facility Cost Ratings™ appear on the profiles of all facilities (hospitals, imaging centers, and urgent care centers) in our Amino's healthcare transparency product.

The Facility Cost Ratings™ you see in this post are averaged across all insurers. On Amino, employees see Facility Cost Ratings™ specific to their network and plan.