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
HB Arthro/Surg Shld Debrd Exten
Based on 8,039–14,402 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$83
Average
$5.6k
Median
$4.5k
High
$67.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $42.3k | $47.4k | $26.7k | 56% | 1,704 | $2.9k – $92.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $16.0k | $27.4k | $21.2k | 77% | 1,110 | $3.3k – $63.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $40.9k | $46.6k | $29.4k | 63% | 988 | $4.0k – $92.5k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $30.5k | $33.2k | $21.4k | 64% | 925 | $3.5k – $60.9k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $22.0k | $29.9k | $23.9k | 80% | 779 | $893 – $76.0k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $74.2k | $67.5k | $39.7k | 59% | 697 | $8.8k – $127.3k |
| 7 | Hh Health System Dekalb Regional Payne, AL | $3.3k | $3.7k | $2.4k | 64% | 520–772 | $1.2k – $9.8k |
| 8 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $23.1k | $27.4k | $16.8k | 61% | 510 | $3.5k – $65.2k |
| 9 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center Of Green Bay Inc Hospital Sisters GREEN BAY, WI | $4.1k | $3.8k | $2.3k | 62% | 128–596 | $231 – $10.4k |
| 10 | Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital Sandwich, IL | $59.4k | $53.1k | $30.5k | 57% | 35–350 | $6.9k – $103.9k |
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