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
ARTHRS KNE SRG MNISECTMY M/L
Low
$10
Average
$6.4k
Median
$5.7k
High
$47.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center Of Green Bay Inc Hospital Sisters GREEN BAY, WI | $7.3k | $7.4k | $643 | 9% | 120–336 | $946 – $11.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $5.6k | $5.6k | $293 | 5% | 114 | $5.3k – $5.9k |
| 3 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $5.2k | $5.0k | $595 | 12% | 89–98 | $3.1k – $5.9k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $5.6k | $5.6k | $293 | 5% | 88 | $5.3k – $5.9k |
| 5 | St Nicholas Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis SHEBOYGAN, WI | $6.8k | $7.2k | $553 | 8% | 88–232 | $946 – $12.5k |
| 6 | Hh Health System Dekalb Regional Payne, AL | $1.6k | $2.8k | $1.8k | 65% | 84–156 | $1.2k – $8.4k |
| 7 | Marymount Hospital Inc Garfield Heights, OH | $1.6k | $2.6k | $1.9k | 74% | 81 | $1.4k – $6.8k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $5.6k | $5.6k | $293 | 5% | 70 | $5.3k – $5.9k |
| 9 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL | $1.6k | $2.6k | $1.6k | 60% | 62–80 | $1.5k – $5.9k |
| 10 | Boca Raton Regional Hospital BOCA RATON, FL | $8.2k | $6.6k | $3.2k | 48% | 62–152 | $1.3k – $10.4k |
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