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
33968 Removal Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
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Low
$0
Average
$4.1k
Median
$985
High
$100.1k
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| 1 | St Joseph Regional Health Network Reading, PA | $4.9k | $5.2k | $509 | 10% | — | $4.7k – $5.9k |
| 2 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $29 | $32 | $10 | 30% | — | $28 – $59 |
| 3 | San Joaquin Community Hospital Bakersfield, CA | $29 | $37 | $11 | 31% | — | $29 – $65 |
| 4 | Henry Ford Health Novi, MI | $43 | $45 | $4 | 8% | — | $43 – $50 |
| 5 | The Queens Medical Center Ewa Beach, HI | $28 | $39 | $18 | 47% | — | $28 – $79 |
| 6 | Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato 56001-4752 | $3.6k | $3.6k | — | — | — | $3.6k – $3.6k |
| 7 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $46 | $591 | $2.1k | 359% | — | $28 – $12k |
| 8 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $0 |
| 9 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $0 |
| 10 | Metro Knoxville HMA LLC Powell, TN | $745 | $20.5k | $23.5k | 115% | — | $58 – $54.8k |
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