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 Arthroscop Knee Med and Lat
Based on 13,745–27,956 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$3
Average
$5.0k
Median
$4.3k
High
$30.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $17.3k | $19.6k | $11.8k | 60% | 2,545 | $2.2k – $37.3k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $15.9k | $17.9k | $10.8k | 61% | 1,628 | $4.0k – $31.9k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $15.9k | $18.5k | $11.5k | 62% | 1,612 | $2.5k – $36.7k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $8.0k | $13.6k | $9.6k | 70% | 1,596 | $3.8k – $29.6k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $10.8k | $13.8k | $10.0k | 72% | 1,330 | $2.2k – $32.4k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $27.7k | $25.4k | $14.8k | 58% | 1,230 | $3.3k – $47.6k |
| 7 | Hh Health System Dekalb Regional Payne, AL | $1.6k | $2.6k | $1.6k | 60% | 496–712 | $1.2k – $8.4k |
| 8 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $6.2k | $6.3k | $3.4k | 54% | 486–1,080 | $2.1k – $13.3k |
| 9 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $857 | $1.6k | $1.4k | 89% | 226–280 | $493 – $6.5k |
| 10 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center Of Green Bay Inc Hospital Sisters GREEN BAY, WI | $6.8k | $5.6k | $2.6k | 47% | 160–736 | $898 – $11.1k |
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