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 Brnchsc Removal Bronchial Valve Initial
Based on 228–2,154 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$106
Average
$5.2k
Median
$4.4k
High
$244.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.3k | $8.0k | $6.4k | 79% | 70–574 | $728 – $23.3k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.6k | $4.6k | $4.4k | 98% | 52–520 | $184 – $15.2k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $6.8k | $8.4k | $6.5k | 77% | 37–370 | $220 – $20.7k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $7.4k | $9.7k | $8.5k | 87% | 30–300 | $220 – $31.4k |
| 5 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $8.8k | $7.0k | $2.8k | 40% | 6–60 | $1.3k – $8.8k |
| 6 | Hartford Hospital HARTFORD, CT | $1.5k | $3.1k | $3.2k | 102% | 4–40 | $437 – $11.9k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $1.6k | $1.6k | $690 | 43% | 3–30 | $69 – $5.9k |
| 8 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $3.5k | $3.0k | $1.3k | 43% | 3–30 | $1.3k – $4.4k |
| 9 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $459 | $1.9k | $2.6k | 140% | 2–20 | $0 – $10.8k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $3.7k | $3.2k | $1.3k | 42% | 2–20 | $2 – $7.1k |
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