CPT 27278
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
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Low
$315
Average
$23.6k
Median
$16.3k
High
$187.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mat-Su Valley Medical Center LLC Palmer, AK | $96.5k | $86.4k | $31.9k | 37% | 1–10 | $13.1k – $117.1k |
| 2 | Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc. Carmel, IN | $7.2k | $7.5k | $3.5k | 46% | 1–10 | $2.0k – $26.6k |
| 3 | Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, NY | $25.3k | $25.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $25.3k – $25.3k |
| 4 | St Joseph Regional Health Network Reading, PA | $62.1k | $67.4k | $19.5k | 29% | — | $30.7k – $95.6k |
| 5 | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO | $8.0k | $7.6k | $1.5k | 19% | — | $5.5k – $9.7k |
| 6 | Children's National Hospital Washington, DC | $702 | $738 | $92 | 12% | — | $603 – $842 |
| 7 | Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI | $18.9k | $17.4k | $2.9k | 17% | — | $10.0k – $19.7k |
| 8 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $35k | $37.0k | $10.5k | 28% | — | $18.6k – $50k |
| 9 | Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital Inc. Muncie, IN | $6.4k | $6.6k | $1.7k | 26% | — | $1.6k – $9.2k |
| 10 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $1.5k | $1.6k | $274 | 17% | — | $761 – $2.2k |
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