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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Low
$0
Average
$2.3k
Median
$2.0k
High
$35k
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| 1 | Guthrie Cortland Medical Center Cortland, NY | $2.6k | $3.1k | $1.9k | 62% | 12–120 | $676 – $7.2k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $1.5k | $1.5k | — | — | 5–50 | $1.5k – $1.5k |
| 3 | Abbeville Area Medical Center Abbeville, SC | $3.8k | $3.8k | — | — | 2–20 | $3.8k – $3.8k |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $119 | $119 | — | — | 2–20 | $119 – $119 |
| 5 | The Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc Macon, GA | $870 | $870 | $263 | 30% | 2–20 | $607 – $1.1k |
| 6 | Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital Grand Rapids, MN | $1.9k | $1.9k | $138 | 7% | 2–20 | $1.7k – $2.0k |
| 7 | Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital SUMTER, SC | $1.8k | $1.9k | $270 | 14% | 2–20 | $1.8k – $3.3k |
| 8 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $1.9k | $1.9k | — | — | 2–20 | $1.9k – $1.9k |
| 9 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $5.8k | $5.8k | — | — | 2–20 | $5.8k – $5.8k |
| 10 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $679 | $1.4k | $1.2k | 80% | 2–20 | $547 – $6.1k |
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