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
Low
$0
Average
$4.6k
Median
$3.7k
High
$16.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $5.8k | $5.0k | $1.2k | 24% | 10–100 | $3.2k – $5.8k |
| 2 | Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria, VA | $10.6k | $10.6k | $2.1k | 20% | 4–40 | $8.4k – $12.9k |
| 3 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $11.1k | $11.1k | $2.2k | 20% | 2–20 | $8.9k – $13.3k |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $4.6k | $4.6k | — | — | 1–10 | $4.6k – $4.6k |
| 5 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $7.5k | $7.5k | — | — | 1–10 | $7.5k – $7.5k |
| 6 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $3.2k | $4.4k | $1.8k | 41% | 1–10 | $2.2k – $7.9k |
| 7 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $3.2k | $3.6k | $1.1k | 30% | — | $3.1k – $6.5k |
| 8 | San Joaquin Community Hospital Bakersfield, CA | $4.2k | $4.2k | — | — | — | $4.2k – $4.2k |
| 9 | Henry Ford Health Novi, MI | $4.2k | $4.1k | $3.4k | 82% | — | $695 – $7.5k |
| 10 | The Queens Medical Center Ewa Beach, HI | $3.8k | $5.3k | $2.5k | 47% | — | $3.8k – $10.8k |
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