Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Fine Needle Aspiration Bx W/US Gdn 1st Lesion
Low
$64
Average
$1.8k
Median
$802
High
$23.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $742 | $742 | — | — | 120–138 | $709 – $9.7k |
| 2 | Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Inc City, OK | $1.7k | $1.6k | $377 | 24% | 76–112 | $951 – $2.0k |
| 3 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $503 | $503 | — | — | 63 | $503 – $8.2k |
| 4 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $487 | $571 | $260 | 46% | 47–83 | $294 – $879 |
| 5 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $487 | $571 | $260 | 46% | 47–83 | $294 – $879 |
| 6 | Salem Hospital Salem, MA | $1.4k | $1.5k | $166 | 11% | 42–96 | $169 – $1.8k |
| 7 | Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, IN | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | 34–340 | $69 – $4.6k |
| 8 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $1.4k | $1.4k | $273 | 19% | 27–54 | $1.1k – $1.8k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $1.4k | $1.4k | $273 | 19% | 27–54 | $1.1k – $1.8k |
| 10 | Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital GREENVILLE, SC | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | 23–59 | $146 – $3.4k |
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