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 Core Needle Bx Lung/Mediastinum Perq W/Img
Based on 14,989–34,060 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$2.9k
Median
$2.5k
High
$24.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $6.2k | $8.9k | $7.3k | 82% | 1,949–1,958 | $996 – $25.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $5.5k | $8.1k | $7.1k | 87% | 1,827–1,854 | $864 – $25.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $3.7k | $5.3k | $3.8k | 72% | 1,189 | $779 – $13.5k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $4.6k | $6.0k | $4.5k | 75% | 1,184 | $906 – $14.8k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $3.6k | $8.0k | $7.5k | 94% | 1,050 | $865 – $29.0k |
| 6 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $4.0k | $6.1k | $5.8k | 95% | 644 | $744 – $19.4k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $3.8k | $3.1k | $1.2k | 38% | 526–1,048 | $333 – $15.9k |
| 8 | Dignity Community Care Chandler, AZ | $808 | $2.2k | $1.9k | 89% | 304 | $157 – $7.0k |
| 9 | St Josephs Hospital Health Center Syracuse, NY | $4.5k | $3.4k | $1.4k | 43% | 293–644 | $4 – $5.0k |
| 10 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $386 | $870 | $1.3k | 152% | 283–823 | $48 – $9.0k |
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