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 Bay Area. Below is a peek into our data.

The most expensive hospitals

These five hospitals have the highest Facility Cost Rating™ in the Bay Area, averaged across all insurers. Interestingly, we found that there's no correlation between cost and quality.

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
Novato Community Hospital		A
San Leandro Hospital		D
Highland Hospital		D
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital		A
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center		C

The least expensive hospitals

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

Hospital	Facility Cost Rating™	Safety Grade
John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek Campus		C
John Muir Medical Center, Concord Campus		C
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Summit Campus		C
Washington Hospital Health System		C
Stanford Health Care, ValleyCare		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.