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
AV FUSE UPPR ARM CEPHALIC
Low
$10
Average
$8.4k
Median
$6.5k
High
$666.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lafayette General Medical Center Inc Lafayette, LA | $4.9k | $3.7k | $2.5k | 68% | 4–40 | $550 – $10.3k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $7.8k | $8.0k | $843 | 11% | 3–30 | $7.1k – $9.1k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $7.4k | $7.4k | $392 | 5% | 2–20 | $7.1k – $7.8k |
| 4 | University Hospital & Clinics, Inc. Lafayette, LA | $4.9k | $3.9k | $3.1k | 79% | 2–20 | $550 – $12.5k |
| 5 | St Tammany Hosptial Service District No 2 Slidell, LA | $4.9k | $3.1k | $2.1k | 67% | 2–20 | $550 – $4.9k |
| 6 | Ochsner Clinic Foundation Orleans, LA | $5.0k | $6.0k | $6.5k | 110% | 1–10 | $550 – $24.5k |
| 7 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $10.2k | $9.6k | $6.8k | 71% | 1–10 | $1.5k – $23.5k |
| 8 | Hh Health System Dekalb Regional Payne, AL | $9.8k | $9.8k | — | — | 1–10 | $9.8k – $9.8k |
| 9 | Glens Falls Hospital Inc Falls, NY | $4.5k | $4.8k | $1.7k | 36% | 1–10 | $3.0k – $6.8k |
| 10 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $7.4k | $8.8k | $4.7k | 53% | — | $2.0k – $21.1k |
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