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
HC Suture or Staple Removal No Anesthesia
Low
$9
Average
$1.4k
Median
$852
High
$14.1k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 95 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 57.3× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint Luke’s Hospital of Chillicothe Chillicothe, MO | $17 | $15 | $3 | 19% | 5–50 | $9 – $17 |
| 2 | Saint Luke’s Hospital of Trenton Trenton, MO | $18 | $18 | $1 | 5% | 3–30 | $18 – $20 |
| 3 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $725 | $725 | — | — | 1–10 | $725 – $725 |
| 4 | Saint Luke’s of Allen County Iola, KS | $16 | $16 | — | — | 1–10 | $16 – $16 |
| 5 | Saint Luke’s of Garnett Garnett, KS | $16 | $16 | — | — | 1–10 | $16 – $16 |
| 6 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $725 | $725 | — | — | 1–10 | $725 – $725 |
| 7 | Methodist Hospital Hill Country Fredericksburg, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
| 8 | Manatee Memorial Hospital Bradenton, FL | $673 | $602 | $88 | 15% | — | $474 – $673 |
| 9 | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Chicago, IL | $2.7k | $2.4k | $1.1k | 48% | — | $900 – $3.7k |
| 10 | Key West HMA LLC Key West, FL | $64 | $64 | $2 | 2% | — | $62 – $65 |
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