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 Percutaneous Portal Vein Catheter
Low
$1
Average
$2.5k
Median
$2.0k
High
$25k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.9k | $8.6k | $8.5k | 99% | 490–652 | $230 – $29.0k |
| 2 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $4.3k | $4.3k | $839 | 20% | 76–256 | $946 – $11.9k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5.9k | $11.9k | $11.9k | 100% | 47–470 | $406 – $37.1k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $2.2k | $5.8k | $6.7k | 116% | 23–230 | $163 – $20.9k |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $4.1k | $3.8k | $696 | 18% | 6–60 | $2.5k – $8.2k |
| 6 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Madison, WI | $4.0k | $4.2k | $926 | 22% | 3–30 | $1.9k – $6.1k |
| 7 | St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City City, KS | $1.5k | $1.6k | $843 | 52% | 2–20 | $832 – $6.2k |
| 8 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - South Sacramento SACRAMENTO, CA | $6.1k | $6.1k | $3.0k | 50% | 2–20 | $3.0k – $9.1k |
| 9 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | 2–20 | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 10 | Saint Luke’s East Hospital Summit, MO | $1.4k | $1.4k | $432 | 30% | 2–20 | $847 – $2.4k |
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