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
HC VENOUS SELECT SAMPLING W CATH
Low
$1
Average
$2.8k
Median
$2.1k
High
$19.7k
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Showing only prices reported under the case rate methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 883 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 15.6× 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 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | 54 | $1.2k – $1.2k |
| 2 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $8.5k | $8.3k | $1.9k | 22% | 16–61 | $5.1k – $10.3k |
| 3 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $531 | $2.5k | $3.5k | 141% | 6–60 | $236 – $14.3k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $690 | $574 | $172 | 30% | 5–50 | $346 – $759 |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $6.4k | $6.3k | $142 | 2% | 4–40 | $5.7k – $6.4k |
| 6 | St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City City, KS | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | 2–20 | $3.4k – $3.4k |
| 7 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $366 | $366 | $20 | 5% | 2–20 | $346 – $385 |
| 8 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $366 | $366 | $20 | 5% | 2–20 | $346 – $385 |
| 9 | Saint Luke’s South Hospital, Inc Overland Park, KS | $171 | $171 | — | — | 2–20 | $171 – $171 |
| 10 | Marymount Hospital Inc Garfield Heights, OH | $310 | $1.1k | $1.1k | 108% | 1–10 | $276 – $3.1k |
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