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 Ins Cath Abd/L-Ext Art 2nd
Based on 7,090–12,175 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$2.7k
Median
$2.1k
High
$119.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5.0k | $11.6k | $14.1k | 121% | 2,964 | $204 – $45.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $4.2k | $14.6k | $17.9k | 122% | 2,127 | $425 – $62.5k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $3.8k | $15.2k | $17.9k | 118% | 592 | $504 – $49.8k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $4.1k | $8.8k | $8.7k | 99% | 390 | $229 – $32.8k |
| 5 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $7.2k | $14.8k | $17.5k | 118% | 360 | $229 – $56.4k |
| 6 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.2k | $1.2k | $203 | 17% | 54 | $786 – $1.5k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $3.6k | $16.4k | $18.0k | 110% | 41–410 | $345 – $52.5k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $4.2k | $9.7k | $9.8k | 102% | 41–410 | $229 – $33.7k |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $2.9k | $2.8k | $1.8k | 63% | 16–160 | $197 – $26.9k |
| 10 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $531 | $1.3k | $2.5k | 187% | 16–160 | $137 – $15.5k |
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