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
Injection/Aspiration Small Joint/Bursa W/Uls Guide & Perm Rec/Report
Low
$28
Average
$1.6k
Median
$750
High
$9.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemours Children's Hospital 6535 Nemours Parkway | $1.2k | $1.2k | $53 | 5% | 1–10 | $1.1k – $1.2k |
| 2 | Newton Wellesley Hospital Newton, MA | $762 | $762 | — | — | 1–10 | $762 – $762 |
| 3 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $291 | $291 | — | — | — | $291 – $291 |
| 4 | Methodist Hospital Hill Country Fredericksburg, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
| 5 | Rex Hospital, Inc. Raleigh, NC | $7.0k | $7.0k | — | — | — | $7.0k – $7.0k |
| 6 | St Francis Hospital Colorado Springs, CO | $338 | $301 | $89 | 30% | — | $150 – $379 |
| 7 | Metro Knoxville HMA LLC Powell, TN | $276 | $276 | $2 | 1% | — | $274 – $278 |
| 8 | University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | $5.5k | $5.5k | $1.1k | 19% | — | $4.5k – $6.6k |
| 9 | Tristar Centennial Medical Center SPRING HILL, TN | $805 | $846 | $105 | 12% | — | $743 – $990 |
| 10 | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Chicago, IL | $2.7k | $2.4k | $1.1k | 48% | — | $900 – $3.7k |
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