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
$1
Average
$6.2k
Median
$3.4k
High
$100.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $25.0k | $31.1k | $24.6k | 79% | 2,445 | $1.8k – $82.7k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $11.9k | $19.3k | $18.0k | 93% | 903 | $1.6k – $56.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $9.8k | $16.3k | $13.1k | 80% | 705 | $1.4k – $44.0k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $10.2k | $22.6k | $20.7k | 92% | 33–330 | $1.8k – $59.9k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $13.5k | $17.0k | $11.0k | 65% | 31–310 | $1.8k – $37.6k |
| 6 | St Anthonys Memorial Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Mattoon, IL | $6.2k | $6.1k | $2.2k | 36% | 28–280 | $1.7k – $8.8k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $9.8k | $25.8k | $24.0k | 93% | 26–260 | $1.6k – $76.7k |
| 8 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $28.3k | $30.4k | $27.6k | 91% | 24–240 | $1.9k – $93.4k |
| 9 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $1.2k | $1.7k | $864 | 52% | 14–140 | $635 – $3.4k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $6.3k | $5.1k | $3.3k | 65% | 11–110 | $88 – $9.8k |
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