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
I&D DP ABSC/HMTMA SFT TS NCK
Low
$1
Average
$4.5k
Median
$3.8k
High
$21.2k
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Showing only prices reported under the case rate methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 1030 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 4.3× 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 | St Vincent Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Green Bay, WI | $5.8k | $5.8k | — | — | 3–30 | $5.8k – $5.8k |
| 2 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $4.8k | $4.8k | $2.0k | 41% | 3–30 | $1.5k – $8.7k |
| 3 | Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital Nonprofit Corporation Weston, FL | $1.6k | $2.4k | $1.5k | 63% | 2–20 | $1.4k – $5.7k |
| 4 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $2.8k | $2.8k | $12 | 0% | 1–10 | $2.8k – $2.8k |
| 5 | Midstate Medical Center MERIDEN, CT | $7.8k | $7.8k | $1.1k | 14% | 1–10 | $6.7k – $8.9k |
| 6 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center Of Green Bay Inc Hospital Sisters GREEN BAY, WI | $5.6k | $6.1k | $1.2k | 20% | 1–10 | $5.0k – $8.8k |
| 7 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $2.8k | $2.8k | $12 | 0% | 1–10 | $2.8k – $2.8k |
| 8 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $4.0k | $3.3k | $1.6k | 48% | 1–10 | $1.0k – $5.2k |
| 9 | Virtua_West_Jersey_Health_System_Inc Marlton, NJ | $3.4k | $6.7k | $4.6k | 68% | 1–10 | $2.7k – $16.4k |
| 10 | St Tammany Hosptial Service District No 2 Slidell, LA | $2.6k | $1.8k | $1.0k | 57% | 1–10 | $481 – $2.6k |
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