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 Houston. Below is a peek into our data.

The most expensive hospitals

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

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
Houston Methodist St John Hospital		B
Methodist Sugar Land Hospital		A
University General Hospital		C
Brazosport Regional Health System		C
North Cypress Medical Center		B

The least expensive hospitals

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

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
Bayshore Medical Center		C
Oakbend Medical Center, Jackson Street Campus		C
Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital		A
Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital		A
Kingwood Medical Center		B

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.