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 large joint
Low
$0
Average
$774
Median
$387
High
$15.7k
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| 1 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $331 | $247 | $115 | 47% | 3,416–3,650 | $133 – $1.8k |
| 2 | ARH Tug Valley Health Services, Inc. Prestonsburg, KY | $220 | $220 | — | — | 1,971–2,079 | $53 – $825 |
| 3 | St Joseph Mercy Chelsea Chelsea, MI | $307 | $328 | $115 | 35% | 1,916–1,988 | $51 – $879 |
| 4 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $1 | $131 | $260 | 198% | 1,754 | $0 – $863 |
| 5 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $286 | $288 | $4 | 1% | 1,573–1,609 | $108 – $4.1k |
| 6 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $392 | $468 | $192 | 41% | 1,302–1,374 | $232 – $1.2k |
| 7 | Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Boise Boise, ID | $335 | $443 | $192 | 43% | 1,074–1,218 | $18 – $10.3k |
| 8 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $184 | $383 | $382 | 100% | 1,013–1,310 | $126 – $4.3k |
| 9 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $183 | $190 | $22 | 12% | 1,004 | $138 – $2.8k |
| 10 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $5.8k | $5.1k | $3.6k | 71% | 971–1,160 | $258 – $50.7k |
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