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 Arthroscopy Elbow Surgical Debridement Extensive
Based on 120–1,200 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$305
Average
$4.9k
Median
$4.3k
High
$37.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $26.6k | $32.0k | $18.3k | 57% | 49–490 | $1.5k – $57.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $15.5k | $19.7k | $14.5k | 74% | 38–380 | $2.7k – $46.5k |
| 3 | Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center, Llc Shreveport, LA | $3.0k | $2.9k | $1.8k | 62% | 5–50 | $550 – $7.5k |
| 4 | Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria, VA | $5.7k | $6.7k | $3.0k | 45% | 4–40 | $3.1k – $13.1k |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $5.6k | $5.2k | $1.3k | 25% | 2–20 | $216 – $5.9k |
| 6 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $9.1k | $9.1k | $4.9k | 54% | 2–20 | $4.1k – $14.0k |
| 7 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $5.7k | $6.7k | $3.1k | 46% | 2–20 | $3.1k – $13.3k |
| 8 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $3.2k | $3.6k | $2.6k | 73% | 1–10 | $410 – $11.4k |
| 9 | City Hospital, Inc. Martinsburg, WV | $3.3k | $3.9k | $1.0k | 27% | 1–10 | $3.1k – $8.1k |
| 10 | Dignity Health Camarillo, CA | $4.1k | $5.3k | $3.1k | 59% | 1–10 | $593 – $14.1k |
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