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
Low
$1
Average
$3.5k
Median
$2.8k
High
$397.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $6.6k | $9.0k | $7.3k | 82% | 1,949–1,958 | $996 – $25.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $6.6k | $9.8k | $7.2k | 74% | 1,248 | $1.2k – $25.8k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $4.9k | $6.2k | $4.5k | 73% | 1,056 | $906 – $14.8k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $4.3k | $6.0k | $3.7k | 62% | 899 | $779 – $13.5k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $5.0k | $8.5k | $7.7k | 91% | 875 | $865 – $29.0k |
| 6 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $4.5k | $6.8k | $6.0k | 89% | 483 | $744 – $19.4k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $3.9k | $3.2k | $1.1k | 35% | 362–776 | $889 – $15.9k |
| 8 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $386 | $382 | $386 | 101% | 124–313 | $158 – $5.5k |
| 9 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $3.7k | $3.5k | $335 | 10% | 118–172 | $2.9k – $3.9k |
| 10 | Intermountain Front Range Inc. Dba Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital WHEAT RIDGE, CO | $4.2k | $4.2k | $1.7k | 41% | 56 | $1.4k – $7.4k |
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