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 Remove Lung Catheter
Based on 1,617–7,575 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$1.5k
Median
$1.1k
High
$11.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $3.3k | $3.6k | $1.8k | 51% | 816 | $233 – $5.9k |
| 2 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.3k | $1.2k | $213 | 17% | 54 | $824 – $1.6k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.2k | $2.2k | $1.6k | 73% | 52–520 | $11 – $5.7k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $2.9k | $2.8k | $1.5k | 54% | 41–410 | $184 – $5.7k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $2.7k | $3.6k | $2.7k | 75% | 41–410 | $7 – $10.0k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $3.9k | $5.8k | $5.1k | 88% | 37–370 | $229 – $15.5k |
| 7 | Eisenhower Medical Center Rancho Mirage, CA | $807 | $895 | $962 | 107% | 32–68 | $79 – $7.4k |
| 8 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $1.8k | $2.0k | $1.3k | 64% | 30–300 | $5 – $4.4k |
| 9 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $2.5k | $2.8k | $1.6k | 57% | 28–280 | $751 – $7.4k |
| 10 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $719 | $665 | $105 | 16% | 26–143 | $314 – $734 |
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