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
Low
$0
Average
$1.9k
Median
$864
High
$50k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $290 | $290 | — | — | 114 | $290 – $290 |
| 2 | Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center - Boise Boise, ID | $211 | $779 | $1.8k | 236% | 10–100 | $54 – $20.9k |
| 3 | Mercy Health Saint Marys Grand Rapids, MI | $165 | $1.1k | $2.1k | 197% | 9–90 | $54 – $18.6k |
| 4 | Mon Health Medical Center Morgantown, WV | $254 | $426 | $518 | 122% | 8–80 | $207 – $2.3k |
| 5 | Dignity Health Carmichael, CA | $1.5k | $1.5k | $940 | 62% | 6–60 | $236 – $2.9k |
| 6 | Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Inc. Hutchinson, KS | $761 | $761 | — | — | 4–40 | $761 – $761 |
| 7 | John Muir Health Concord, CA | $12.6k | $9.5k | $5.5k | 58% | 2–20 | $88 – $14.2k |
| 8 | Dignity Health Santa Cruz, CA | $2.7k | $2.2k | $1.3k | 57% | 2–20 | $279 – $3.9k |
| 9 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, NY | $626 | $1.4k | $2.0k | 138% | 2–20 | $137 – $8.0k |
| 10 | Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield, CA | $1.9k | $2.4k | $2.0k | 86% | 2–20 | $279 – $6.2k |
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