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
RELEASE FOREARM/HAND TENDON
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Low
$116
Average
$4.5k
Median
$4.1k
High
$31.2k
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| 1 | Brunswick Community Hospital, LLC Bolivia, NC | $3.5k | $4.0k | $1.6k | 40% | 2–20 | $2.4k – $7.9k |
| 2 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $3.3k | $3.1k | $1.8k | 59% | 1–10 | $206 – $8.3k |
| 3 | Memorial Health University Medical Center Savannah, GA | $3.4k | $4.3k | $2.0k | 47% | 1–10 | $341 – $7.8k |
| 4 | Inova Mount Vernon Hospital Alexandria, VA | $4.4k | $4.9k | $2.2k | 46% | 1–10 | $1.9k – $8.7k |
| 5 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $3.4k | $3.6k | $1.5k | 40% | — | $1.1k – $6.2k |
| 6 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $6.8k | $7.4k | $2.1k | 29% | — | $5.1k – $10.2k |
| 7 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $6.9k | $7.3k | $3.1k | 42% | — | $2.0k – $16.1k |
| 8 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $3.7k | $4.5k | $3.0k | 65% | — | $1.3k – $9.0k |
| 9 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $661 | $1.1k | $705 | 64% | — | $598 – $2.6k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $2.7k | $2.6k | $1.7k | 66% | — | $489 – $7.4k |
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