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 Knee Diagnostic W/WO Synovial Bx Spx
Low
$257
Average
$7.0k
Median
$2.0k
High
$174.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $40.7k | $35.2k | $22.3k | 63% | 56–560 | $1.6k – $123.7k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $61.9k | $67.7k | $38.1k | 56% | 47–470 | $4.0k – $123.7k |
| 3 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $15.3k | $17.1k | $7.6k | 44% | 24–240 | $6.6k – $34.0k |
| 4 | Saint Joseph Health System, Inc Lexington, KY | $3.0k | $3.0k | — | — | 2–20 | $3.0k – $3.0k |
| 5 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $6.5k | $6.5k | $1.1k | 17% | 1–10 | $4.8k – $8.3k |
| 6 | Medical Park Hospital LLC Winston-Salem, NC | $1.0k | $1.0k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.0k – $1.0k |
| 7 | St Marys Hospital Decatur Of Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis DECATUR, IL | $7.0k | $7.0k | — | — | 1–10 | $7.0k – $7.0k |
| 8 | Novant Health Thomasville Medical Center, LLC Thomasville, NC | $3.9k | $3.9k | — | — | 1–10 | $3.9k – $3.9k |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $3.4k | $3.4k | $171 | 5% | 1–10 | $1.6k – $6.1k |
| 10 | Sturdy Memorial Hospital Attleboro, MA | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.0k – $2.0k |
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