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 Ligation/Biopsy Temporal Artery
Based on 4,466–8,579 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$80
Average
$2.6k
Median
$2.3k
High
$20.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $9.4k | $11.3k | $7.0k | 62% | 1,711 | $868 – $25.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5.2k | $5.4k | $3.7k | 68% | 1,127 | $102 – $12.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $6.4k | $6.4k | $3.9k | 60% | 456 | $1.0k – $15.2k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $9.5k | $12.3k | $10.0k | 81% | 407 | $1.6k – $31.6k |
| 5 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $6.2k | $9.0k | $7.5k | 84% | 308 | $1.7k – $26.4k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $8.0k | $8.2k | $4.4k | 54% | 41–410 | $1.2k – $17.3k |
| 7 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $7.4k | $9.9k | $7.5k | 76% | 30–300 | $1.9k – $32.2k |
| 8 | St Vincent Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Green Bay, WI | $1.6k | $2.6k | $1.3k | 49% | 15–150 | $1.6k – $4.3k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $642 | $1.1k | $1.1k | 107% | 14–140 | $28 – $4.6k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1.7k | $2.3k | $1.5k | 65% | 13–130 | $134 – $5.8k |
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