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
HC ER I&D LEG ANKLE DEEP ABSCESS
Based on 65–650 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$90
Average
$3.6k
Median
$3.3k
High
$26.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Concord, NC | $3.3k | $3.5k | $2.0k | 57% | 6–60 | $281 – $6.9k |
| 2 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Layton, UT | $5.5k | $5.4k | $3.3k | 60% | 4–40 | $164 – $12.5k |
| 3 | Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Fairfax, VA | $4.4k | $5.5k | $3.2k | 59% | 4–40 | $2.1k – $17.8k |
| 4 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $684 | $1.2k | $996 | 80% | 4–40 | $381 – $5.7k |
| 5 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $942 | $1.7k | $1.9k | 111% | 2–20 | $0 – $9.5k |
| 6 | Davis Medical Center Elkins, WV | $539 | $2.4k | $4.2k | 177% | 2–20 | $275 – $13.6k |
| 7 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado West Jordan, UT | $5.3k | $5.1k | $3.3k | 65% | 2–20 | $164 – $12.5k |
| 8 | Sanford Medical Center Bismarck Bismarck, ND | $4.1k | $3.7k | $1.5k | 42% | 2–20 | $393 – $5.4k |
| 9 | Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Charles, LA | $3.1k | $3.7k | $1.7k | 47% | 2–20 | $72 – $8.3k |
| 10 | Capital Health System Inc Pennington, NJ | $5.0k | $5.9k | $4.2k | 72% | 2–20 | $307 – $13.8k |
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