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 Change of Windpipe Airway
Low
$27
Average
$725
Median
$411
High
$26.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $2.6k | $8.2k | $9.7k | 118% | 33–330 | $146 – $26.2k |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $128 | $171 | $88 | 52% | 28–280 | $63 – $349 |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.4k | $6.7k | $12.9k | 192% | 28–280 | $124 – $47.0k |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $121 | $161 | $84 | 52% | 28–280 | $60 – $330 |
| 5 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Albermarle, NC | $439 | $415 | $201 | 48% | 18–180 | $85 – $682 |
| 6 | Sonora Community Hospital Sonora, CA | $253 | $249 | $160 | 64% | 16–160 | $59 – $545 |
| 7 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $492 | $749 | $664 | 89% | 8–80 | $43 – $2.4k |
| 8 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $337 | $367 | $194 | 53% | 6–60 | $57 – $792 |
| 9 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $337 | $367 | $194 | 53% | 6–60 | $57 – $792 |
| 10 | Capital Health System Inc Pennington, NJ | $175 | $452 | $490 | 108% | 6–60 | $61 – $1.3k |
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