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
HC KNEE SCOPE, DIAGNOSTIC
Low
$0
Average
$4.7k
Median
$3.5k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1.5k | $2.1k | $1.8k | 83% | 6–60 | $245 – $5.8k |
| 2 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $7.7k | $8.2k | $2.5k | 31% | 6–60 | $4.5k – $11.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $14.2k | $14.2k | — | — | 5–50 | $14.2k – $14.2k |
| 4 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $2.7k | $2.7k | — | — | 4–40 | $2.7k – $2.7k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $4.3k | $4.3k | — | — | 3–30 | $4.3k – $4.3k |
| 6 | City Hospital, Inc. Martinsburg, WV | $3.3k | $3.6k | $882 | 24% | 1–10 | $1.6k – $5.5k |
| 7 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.3k | $5.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $5.3k – $5.3k |
| 8 | The Mercy Hospital Inc Springfield, MA | $4.0k | $5.2k | $1.8k | 34% | 1–10 | $3.8k – $9.4k |
| 9 | Tanner Medical Center - Villa Rica Villa Rica, GA | $3.3k | $3.3k | $498 | 15% | 1–10 | $2.1k – $3.9k |
| 10 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $3.2k | $3.6k | $1.1k | 30% | — | $3.1k – $6.5k |
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