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 Ren Art 2nd+ Unilat
Based on 517–3,289 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$6.9k
Median
$6.3k
High
$113.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $13.2k | $23.5k | $23.3k | 99% | 204–645 | $10 – $74.1k |
| 2 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $7.8k | $7.6k | $1.7k | 22% | 54 | $1.2k – $10.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5.1k | $12.1k | $13.3k | 110% | 52–520 | $31 – $44.0k |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $5.4k | $5.6k | $4.4k | 78% | 41–410 | $230 – $19.0k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $9.3k | $21.4k | $22.7k | 106% | 41–410 | $15 – $74.1k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $7.6k | $12.0k | $10.8k | 90% | 37–370 | $229 – $32.6k |
| 7 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $13.6k | $26.2k | $30.6k | 117% | 30–300 | $229 – $106.0k |
| 8 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $5.5k | $6.4k | $3.9k | 60% | 16–160 | $230 – $13.3k |
| 9 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $6.8k | $7.3k | $2.9k | 40% | 7–70 | $2.6k – $17.8k |
| 10 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $10.0k | $12.8k | $8.2k | 64% | 5–50 | $3.9k – $59.6k |
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