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
Aspiration and/or injection of fluid from small joint using ultrasound guidance|BILATERAL PROCEDURE|NON-EXCEPTED SERVICE PROVIDED AT AN OFF-CAMPUS PBB DEP
Based on 1,007–5,624 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$38
Average
$1.1k
Median
$656
High
$13.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $936 | $878 | $448 | 51% | 238–382 | $133 – $1.8k |
| 2 | Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA | $376 | $376 | — | — | 90–900 | $376 – $376 |
| 3 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $299 | $645 | $1.2k | 179% | 68–122 | $0 – $12.5k |
| 4 | Range Regional Health Services Hibbing, MN | $259 | $261 | $162 | 62% | 61–151 | $22 – $819 |
| 5 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $452 | $461 | $139 | 30% | 54 | $295 – $1.2k |
| 6 | Eisenhower Medical Center Rancho Mirage, CA | $395 | $415 | $518 | 125% | 49–85 | $23 – $6.5k |
| 7 | Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital Grand Rapids, MN | $267 | $279 | $161 | 58% | 44–134 | $31 – $819 |
| 8 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $319 | $446 | $469 | 105% | 36–360 | $23 – $1.6k |
| 9 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $292 | $366 | $351 | 96% | 29–173 | $0 – $1.8k |
| 10 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $524 | $445 | $354 | 80% | 16–43 | $10 – $815 |
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