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
Low
$73
Average
$6.6k
Median
$4.7k
High
$35.6k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 94 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 63.4× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $242 | $242 | $13 | 5% | 2–20 | $229 – $255 |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $242 | $242 | $13 | 5% | 2–20 | $229 – $255 |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $425 | $425 | — | — | 1–10 | $425 – $425 |
| 4 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $5.4k | $5.4k | — | — | — | $5.4k – $5.4k |
| 5 | Methodist Hospital Hill Country Fredericksburg, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
| 6 | Rex Hospital, Inc. Raleigh, NC | $7.0k | $7.0k | — | — | — | $7.0k – $7.0k |
| 7 | Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi Oxford, MS | $258 | $258 | — | — | — | $258 – $258 |
| 8 | University Health Truman Medical Center Kansas City, MO | $209 | $209 | — | — | — | $209 – $209 |
| 9 | University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | $5.5k | $5.5k | $1.1k | 19% | — | $4.5k – $6.6k |
| 10 | Tristar Centennial Medical Center SPRING HILL, TN | $2.0k | $2.0k | $186 | 9% | — | $1.8k – $2.2k |
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