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
Bx/Exc Lymph Node Open Superficial
Low
$5
Average
$6.1k
Median
$4.3k
High
$42.9k
Each hospital's average Blue Cross Blue Shield rate, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
1093 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 11.6× 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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iThe hospitals that file a Blue Cross Blue Shield rate for this code, one row per hospital and set of terms (billing class, payment method, setting). Rates under different terms are never blended, so the terms are shown under each hospital’s name. Figures are the hospital’s averages across its plans.| # | Plans | |||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Grayslake, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $13.1k | $17.2k | $17.1k | 100% | 387 | $2.1k – $56.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $22.5k | $25.1k | $16.6k | 66% | 289 | $4.4k – $56.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 12 | $13.9k | $16.8k | $13.0k | 77% | 255 | $3.0k – $44.0k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Grayslake, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $7.0k | $7.0k | $166 | 2% | 86 | $6.8k – $7.2k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $5.1k | $5.1k | — | — | 30 | $5.1k – $5.1k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $21.9k | $19.0k | $9.0k | 47% | 9–90 | $5.5k – $37.6k |
| 7 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital Woodstock, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $42.0k | $40.9k | $29.0k | 71% | 8–80 | $3.5k – $93.4k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $21.5k | $16.7k | $12.2k | 73% | 8–80 | $2.7k – $42.9k |
| 9 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $10.4k | $14.1k | $15.4k | 109% | 8–80 | $3.8k – $59.9k |
| 10 | ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL Albany, NY facility · case rate · outpatient | 10 | $3.9k | $4.1k | $2.4k | 58% | 6–60 | $1.5k – $8.7k |
| 11 | BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL Delray Beach, FL case rate · outpatient | 2 | $11.7k | $11.7k | $358 | 3% | 6–60 | $11.4k – $12.1k |
| 12 | BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER BATON ROUGE, LA fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $5.2k | $5.2k | $1.7k | 34% | 4–40 | $3.5k – $6.9k |
| 13 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI professional · other · both | 1 | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | 4–40 | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 14 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $922 | $877 | $152 | 17% | 4–40 | $635 – $1.0k |
| 15 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL other · outpatient | 4 | $9.6k | $8.5k | $1.9k | 22% | 4–40 | $5.2k – $9.6k |
| 16 | BETHESDA HOSPITAL BOYNTON BEACH, FL fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $5.9k | $5.9k | — | — | 3–30 | $5.9k – $5.9k |
| 17 | BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL Delray Beach, FL fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $6.4k | $6.4k | — | — | 3–30 | $6.4k – $6.4k |
| 18 | COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Hudson, NY facility · case rate · outpatient | 9 | $3.2k | $3.1k | $877 | 28% | 3–30 | $1.7k – $5.0k |
| 19 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $10.4k | $12.4k | $4.6k | 37% | 3–30 | $8.1k – $18.8k |
| 20 | HH HEALTH SYSTEM DEKALB REGIONAL Payne, AL fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $5.0k | $5.0k | — | — | 2–20 | $5.0k – $5.0k |
| 21 | Medical Park Hospital LLC Winston-Salem, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $755 | $755 | — | — | 2–20 | $755 – $755 |
| 22 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 3 | $4.0k | $2.8k | $1.9k | 66% | 2–20 | $215 – $4.3k |
| 23 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 3 | $4.0k | $2.8k | $1.9k | 66% | 2–20 | $215 – $4.3k |
| 24 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $3.5k | $3.5k | $865 | 25% | 2–20 | $2.6k – $4.3k |
| 25 | PRISMA HEALTH BAPTIST COLUMBIA HOSPITAL COLUMBIA, SC fee schedule · both | 3 | $5.0k | $5.2k | $167 | 3% | 2–20 | $5.0k – $5.4k |
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