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 Decompress
Based on 19,544–26,204 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$4.6k
Median
$3.2k
High
$111.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $70.4k | $64.4k | $37.7k | 58% | 3,526 | $8.3k – $120.8k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $33.6k | $36.6k | $23.7k | 65% | 2,812 | $346 – $67.2k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $38.2k | $42.3k | $25.7k | 61% | 2,631 | $487 – $77.5k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $34.4k | $39.1k | $24.5k | 63% | 2,132 | $5.3k – $77.5k |
| 5 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $18.9k | $31.7k | $24.7k | 78% | 2,130 | $3.3k – $75.2k |
| 6 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $21.7k | $25.5k | $16.1k | 63% | 1,800 | $346 – $61.3k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $21.6k | $29.2k | $24.0k | 82% | 1,558 | $893 – $74.7k |
| 8 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Ontario ONTARIO, CA | $3.1k | $4.4k | $2.2k | 50% | 451 | $2.6k – $7.5k |
| 9 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Orange County - Anaheim Anaheim, CA | $3.1k | $4.4k | $2.2k | 50% | 137 | $2.6k – $7.5k |
| 10 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Fresno FRESNO, CA | $2.8k | $4.5k | $2.5k | 55% | 90–99 | $2.7k – $7.9k |
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