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 Needle Superficial|PROFESSIONAL COMPONENT
Low
$1
Average
$3.2k
Median
$2.8k
High
$19.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $8.5k | $8.4k | $1.8k | 22% | 143–215 | $1.4k – $22.7k |
| 2 | Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | 142 | $753 – $2.4k |
| 3 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $2.1k | $1.9k | $550 | 28% | 78–159 | $1.0k – $2.6k |
| 4 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | 54 | $1.2k – $3.3k |
| 5 | DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Raleigh, NC | $1.6k | $1.6k | — | — | 34–106 | $287 – $3.4k |
| 6 | DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. Doing Business As: DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Durham, NC | $1.6k | $1.6k | — | — | 34–106 | $287 – $3.4k |
| 7 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL | $935 | $1.8k | $1.4k | 75% | 33–60 | $857 – $4.9k |
| 8 | Saint Luke’s East Hospital Summit, MO | $1.1k | $1.7k | $1.1k | 62% | 25–250 | $525 – $4.6k |
| 9 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $3.3k | $3.2k | $1.2k | 39% | 25–250 | $108 – $6.5k |
| 10 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $5.7k | $6.0k | $1.2k | 20% | 22–85 | $657 – $20.4k |
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