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 Bx/Exc Lymph Node Needle Superficial
Based on 19,515–55,632 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$2.3k
Median
$2.1k
High
$16.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $3.4k | $5.2k | $5.2k | 101% | 4,952–4,961 | $272 – $16.7k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $1.9k | $4.8k | $5.1k | 106% | 3,145 | $311 – $14.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $1.0k | $4.1k | $4.6k | 113% | 2,303–2,366 | $213 – $14.0k |
| 4 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $1.7k | $1.7k | $714 | 41% | 348–420 | $77 – $3.7k |
| 5 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, NY | $438 | $1.4k | $2.2k | 157% | 263–272 | $37 – $9.8k |
| 6 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Harrison, NY | $438 | $1.3k | $2.1k | 156% | 263–272 | $37 – $9.7k |
| 7 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $8.5k | $7.7k | $2.7k | 35% | 252–657 | $742 – $10.3k |
| 8 | Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA | $385 | $385 | — | — | 252–2,520 | $385 – $385 |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1.6k | $1.8k | $1.4k | 81% | 230–1,112 | $58 – $5.7k |
| 10 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $514 | $794 | $692 | 87% | 196–340 | $241 – $4.1k |
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