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 medium joint using ultrasound guidance
Low
$34
Average
$1.2k
Median
$1.0k
High
$7.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc City, SD | $1.5k | $1.2k | $584 | 48% | 45–126 | $226 – $1.8k |
| 2 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $842 | $834 | $205 | 25% | 41–410 | $353 – $1.1k |
| 3 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $251 | $333 | $173 | 52% | 30–300 | $124 – $682 |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $238 | $316 | $163 | 52% | 30–300 | $117 – $646 |
| 5 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $1.7k | $1.5k | $918 | 62% | 25–88 | $112 – $3.2k |
| 6 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $1.4k | $1.3k | $468 | 35% | 16–160 | $160 – $2.3k |
| 7 | University of Colorado Hospital Authority Aurora, CO | $708 | $672 | $170 | 25% | 15–51 | $335 – $972 |
| 8 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $687 | $953 | $605 | 63% | 14–140 | $84 – $2.7k |
| 9 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $687 | $953 | $605 | 63% | 14–140 | $84 – $2.7k |
| 10 | The Carle Foundation Hospital Urbana, IL | $900 | $781 | $365 | 47% | 12–120 | $142 – $1.2k |
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