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 INSERT TUNNELED CV CATH W/O PORT OR PUMP < 5 Y/O
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Low
$0
Average
$4.5k
Median
$4.6k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $6.1k | $8.6k | $4.1k | 48% | 10–100 | $4.4k – $13.6k |
| 2 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | 3–30 | $3.4k – $3.4k |
| 3 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $5.4k | $6.0k | $1.8k | 29% | 2–20 | $4.7k – $11.1k |
| 4 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $5.6k | $9.5k | $7.5k | 79% | 2–20 | $1 – $34.1k |
| 5 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $3.5k | $3.5k | — | — | 1–10 | $3.5k – $3.5k |
| 6 | Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Angeles, CA | $246 | $2.4k | $5.4k | 227% | 1–10 | $113 – $22.0k |
| 7 | University of Virginia Haymarket Medical Center Haymarket, VA | $5.8k | $8.2k | $4.2k | 51% | — | $5.8k – $16.1k |
| 8 | San Joaquin Community Hospital Bakersfield, CA | $7.2k | $7.2k | — | — | — | $7.2k – $7.2k |
| 9 | Henry Ford Health Novi, MI | $1.1k | $1.2k | $96 | 8% | — | $1.1k – $1.3k |
| 10 | Baptist Medical Center of the Beaches, INC Beach, FL | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $0 |
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