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
Remove Central Venous Catheter
Low
$1
Average
$3.2k
Median
$2.1k
High
$34.2k
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Showing only prices reported under the case rate methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 1250 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 11.1× 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 | ||||||
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| 1 | Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD | $1.9k | $1.9k | — | — | 62 | $350 – $1.9k |
| 2 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | 54 | $1.2k – $4.0k |
| 3 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $1.5k | $1.5k | $328 | 22% | 18–180 | $588 – $2.0k |
| 4 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $2.2k | $3.0k | $2.2k | 73% | 17–170 | $88 – $15.5k |
| 5 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $8.5k | $8.3k | $1.9k | 22% | 16–43 | $628 – $10.3k |
| 6 | St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City City, KS | $2.2k | $2.3k | $127 | 6% | 14–140 | $164 – $5.0k |
| 7 | Saint Luke’s East Hospital Summit, MO | $2.1k | $2.0k | $355 | 18% | 10–100 | $164 – $2.4k |
| 8 | Virtua_Memorial_Hospital_Inc | Mount Holly, NJ | $1.9k | $5.1k | $5.4k | 106% | 6–60 | $676 – $16.4k |
| 9 | Virtua_West_Jersey_Health_System_Inc Voorhees, NJ | $1.9k | $5.1k | $5.4k | 106% | 6–60 | $676 – $16.4k |
| 10 | Virtua_West_Jersey_Health_System_Inc Marlton, NJ | $1.9k | $5.1k | $5.4k | 106% | 6–60 | $676 – $16.4k |
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