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
KNEE ARTHROSCOPY/SURGERY
Based on 480–3,936 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$296
Average
$5.0k
Median
$4.3k
High
$47.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hh Health System Dekalb Regional Payne, AL | $3.1k | $3.0k | $1.6k | 54% | 110–236 | $1.2k – $5.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $43.7k | $47.7k | $28.1k | 59% | 71–710 | $2.3k – $87.3k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $17.2k | $20.7k | $13.0k | 63% | 52–520 | $2.8k – $41.1k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $34.5k | $46.9k | $38.3k | 82% | 41–410 | $893 – $119.3k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $21.2k | $23.3k | $14.6k | 63% | 37–370 | $4.2k – $42.4k |
| 6 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $23.8k | $28.2k | $17.4k | 62% | 30–300 | $2.6k – $67.1k |
| 7 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $3.5k | $5.0k | $2.8k | 56% | 21–210 | $2.1k – $10.9k |
| 8 | Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton Carrollton, GA | $3.4k | $3.5k | $1.4k | 39% | 7–70 | $1.1k – $9.5k |
| 9 | Dignity Community Care Sacramento, CA | $4.3k | $4.6k | $4.1k | 89% | 4–40 | $226 – $14.2k |
| 10 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center Of Green Bay Inc Hospital Sisters GREEN BAY, WI | $3.9k | $4.2k | $1.6k | 39% | 4–40 | $2.3k – $6.8k |
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