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
HC SELECT CATH PLMT EA INTRACRANIAL BRANCH UNILATERAL
Based on 138–759 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$0
Average
$3.4k
Median
$2.8k
High
$45.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $6.6k | $6.4k | $1.4k | 22% | 54 | $1.2k – $8.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $6.4k | $36.4k | $52.9k | 145% | 30–300 | $233 – $152.5k |
| 3 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA | $3.9k | $5.5k | $2.7k | 50% | 17–35 | $3.2k – $9.3k |
| 4 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Orange County - Anaheim Anaheim, CA | $3.9k | $5.5k | $2.7k | 50% | 3–30 | $3.2k – $9.3k |
| 5 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $1.0k | $1.6k | $2.4k | 150% | 3–30 | $116 – $14.3k |
| 6 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $3.1k | $2.7k | $1.2k | 42% | 3–30 | $869 – $4.4k |
| 7 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Baldwin Park BALDWIN PARK, CA | $6.6k | $6.6k | $2.7k | 41% | 2–20 | $3.9k – $9.3k |
| 8 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Madison, WI | $3.6k | $3.8k | $831 | 22% | 2–20 | $1.7k – $5.5k |
| 9 | Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD | $2.0k | $2.0k | $1.7k | 86% | 2–20 | $0 – $5.8k |
| 10 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - West La LOS ANGELES, CA | $6.6k | $6.6k | $2.7k | 41% | 2–20 | $3.9k – $9.3k |
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