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
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Based on 925–8,764 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$2.4k
Median
$2.0k
High
$348.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA | $776 | $776 | — | — | 127–1,270 | $776 – $776 |
| 2 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.2k | $1.2k | $210 | 17% | 54 | $813 – $1.6k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.1k | $4.1k | $4.3k | 105% | 52–520 | $178 – $14.4k |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1.6k | $1.8k | $1.3k | 72% | 40–400 | $100 – $5.5k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $4.8k | $22.7k | $28.1k | 124% | 37–370 | $377 – $76.8k |
| 6 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.9k | $3.4k | $4.0k | 118% | 22–220 | $412 – $14.4k |
| 7 | Fairview Health Services Wyoming, MN | $1.6k | $1.8k | $1.1k | 60% | 20–200 | $100 – $5.1k |
| 8 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1.4k | $1.4k | $1.2k | 81% | 15–150 | $100 – $5.1k |
| 9 | Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital Grand Rapids, MN | $1.7k | $1.8k | $1.2k | 66% | 15–150 | $100 – $5.0k |
| 10 | Range Regional Health Services Hibbing, MN | $1.5k | $1.8k | $1.2k | 69% | 14–140 | $100 – $5.0k |
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