Texas procedure costs
465 hospitals · 11,933 Medicare providers · 6,275 procedure codes with Texas locality adjustments.
The short answer
Texas has 465 hospitals and 11,933 Medicare-billing providers across 6,275 procedure codes. The average Medicare payment per procedure is $303.51; the average submitted (billed) charge is $1,833.29.
- Procedure codes
- 6,275
- Providers per hospital
- 25.7
- Billed-to-Medicare ratio
- 6.0x
- Markup rank
- #16 of 56
Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, 2023.
About this dataset, nationwide
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the 2023 Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset records payments for 9,297 procedure codes billed across 5,426 hospitals in 56 states and territories; see our methodology for how each figure is sourced and computed.
Texas against every US state
Where the state's average Medicare payment per procedure falls, all 56 tracked jurisdictions
$304 higher than 91% of 56 states
Each bar is a $25-wide band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, 2023
The priciest procedures in Texas
Highest average Medicare payment per procedure billed in Texas. Hover any bar for the exact figure; even these top procedures are billed well above what Medicare reimburses.
Top procedures by Medicare payment - Texas
The cost spread in Texas
The highest- and lowest-paying procedures Medicare reimbursed in Texas, side by side.
Most expensive
Least expensive
Top Procedures by Volume
Texas Healthcare Cost Landscape
CMS lists 465 hospitals in Texas across 262 cities. HOUSTON holds 28 (6%). The three densest cities together hold 14% of the state roster. Statewide that is 11,933 Medicare-billing providers, 25.7 per listed hospital.
197 hospitals carry a CMS overall star rating (22 five-star, 61 four-star, 65 three-star, 40 two-star, 9 one-star) ; five-star share among rated facilities is 11%. 268 hospitals in this extract have no published overall rating.
Facility-type mix: Acute Care Hospitals 284 (61%); Critical Access Hospitals 92 (20%); Psychiatric 61 (13%); Childrens 16 (3%).
Among the 30 highest-volume procedure codes billed in Texas, Drugs (Administered) leads with 55.9M services (39% of this top-volume slice) across 15 codes. Next is DME (Temporary) at 18%.
Submitted charges average $1,833.29 against $303.51 Medicare payment (6.0x billed-to-Medicare). That ratio ranks #16 of 56 jurisdictions with both figures in this extract. Average Medicare payment itself is #5 of 56.
Volume leaders are not the high-payment codes. Provision Of Covid-19 Test, Nonprescription Self-Administered And Self-Collected Use, Fda Approved, Authorized Or Cleared, One Test Count is in the top volume slice but not the highest Medicare payments; Sipuleucel-T, Minimum Of 50 Million Autologous Cd54+ Cells Activated With Pap-Gm-Csf, Including Leukapheresis And All Other Preparatory Procedures, Per Infusion is in the high-payment set without matching volume rank.
These are CMS roster and claims aggregates for Texas, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit. See the methodology and CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data.
Where Texas hospitals sit
City of the CMS hospital roster, not a travel or care recommendation. 262 distinct cities appear on 465 listed facilities.
| City | Hospitals | Share of state roster |
|---|---|---|
| HOUSTON | 28 | 6% |
| DALLAS | 19 | 4% |
| SAN ANTONIO | 19 | 4% |
| AUSTIN | 15 | 3% |
| FORT WORTH | 13 | 3% |
| EL PASO | 10 | 2% |
| LUBBOCK | 8 | 2% |
| ARLINGTON | 7 | 2% |
Nationwide states with similar hospital scale or Medicare payment
Two CMS-extract-derived peer sets for Texas: nearest hospital inventory and nearest statewide average Medicare payment. Not clinical substitutes: registry-scale and payment neighborhoods only.
Similar CMS hospital count
Nearest states with ≥5 hospitals (465 here).
Similar average Medicare payment
Nearest states with published averages ($303.51 here).
Hospitals in Texas
How Texas Compares Nationally
Texas's average Medicare payment is #5 of 56 in this extract. Submitted-over-Medicare markup ranks #16 of 56 (6.0x). Hospital-count peers (nearest CMS roster size to 465): California 378, Florida 222, Ohio 196, Illinois 194. Payment peers (nearest average Medicare payment to $303.51): Maryland $310.43, New York $313.07, Arizona $286.66, Pennsylvania $284.85.
Those peer sets are registry neighborhoods, not clinical substitutes. Markup rank and payment rank can diverge: a jurisdiction can sit high on billed-to-Medicare while sitting mid-pack on payment, or the reverse. Figures remain CMS averages for Texas, not an out-of-pocket quote.
Related registry pages
Texas averages sit on two maps: Medicare payment and submitted-over-Medicare markup.
- Procedure codes billed in this extract, in national volume order. Browse procedures
- State payment rank versus markup rank on the rankings hub. Rankings
- How these figures are sourced. Methodology
Figures here are Texas CMS averages, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainProcedure is rendered directly from CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.