Yup. It's an American cockroach (Periplaneta americana)ootheca. They're the 1-1.5" reddish brown cockroaches (also in my icon.)

On the upside, it was freshly laid, so you haven't been sleeping with a cockroach egg-case. On the downside, it does mean that you have adult roaches in and around your house, so the call for the PCO was a good one. Nip cockroaches in the bud before they can breed heavily.