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
ELBOW ARTHROSCOPY/SURGERY
Low
$10
Average
$6.0k
Median
$5.5k
High
$33.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center, Llc Shreveport, LA | $3.0k | $2.9k | $2.0k | 70% | 5–50 | $550 – $7.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $6.3k | $6.3k | $330 | 5% | 2–20 | $5.9k – $6.6k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $5.6k | $5.6k | $293 | 5% | 2–20 | $5.3k – $5.9k |
| 4 | Ochsner Clinic Foundation Orleans, LA | $3.0k | $3.6k | $3.5k | 97% | 1–10 | $550 – $12.5k |
| 5 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $5.2k | $4.9k | $563 | 11% | 1–10 | $4.1k – $5.7k |
| 6 | Straub Clinic & Hospital Honolulu, HI | $3.8k | $3.7k | $3.1k | 84% | 1–10 | $537 – $12.2k |
| 7 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Old Bridge, NJ | $5.5k | $6.1k | $3.4k | 56% | 1–10 | $1.2k – $13.9k |
| 8 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Perth Amboy, NJ | $5.5k | $6.1k | $3.4k | 56% | 1–10 | $1.2k – $13.9k |
| 9 | Boca Raton Regional Hospital BOCA RATON, FL | $5.2k | $5.2k | — | — | 1–10 | $5.2k – $5.2k |
| 10 | Renown South Meadows Medical Center Reno, NV | $9.1k | $9.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $9.1k – $9.1k |
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