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
Arthroscopy Knee Infection Lavage & Drainage
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Based on 52–520 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$281
Average
$4.6k
Median
$4.1k
High
$30.3k
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| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $10.5k | $11.8k | $6.9k | 58% | 37–370 | $2.6k – $20.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.3k | $5.0k | $745 | 15% | 3–30 | $3.8k – $5.6k |
| 3 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $5.9k | $6.8k | $3.0k | 45% | 2–20 | $3.1k – $13.3k |
| 4 | Springhill Memorial Hospital Mobile, AL | $2.5k | $2.5k | — | — | 2–20 | $2.5k – $2.5k |
| 5 | Ochsner Clinic Foundation Orleans, LA | $3.0k | $4.7k | $3.6k | 77% | 1–10 | $550 – $12.5k |
| 6 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $3.1k | $2.9k | $1.2k | 42% | 1–10 | $250 – $5.5k |
| 7 | West Virginia Health Care Cooperative Inc. Summersville, WV | $3.3k | $3.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $3.3k – $3.3k |
| 8 | Saint Joseph Health System, Inc Mt. Sterling, KY | $3.1k | $3.2k | $1.1k | 33% | 1–10 | $1.6k – $6.1k |
| 9 | Wheeling Hospital, Inc. Wheeling, WV | $3.3k | $4.3k | $2.7k | 62% | 1–10 | $2.0k – $13.3k |
| 10 | St Josephs Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis HIGHLAND, IL | $4.1k | $4.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $4.1k – $4.1k |
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