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|LEFT SIDE
Low
$64
Average
$2.4k
Median
$1.5k
High
$10.6k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 152 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 27.1× 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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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $742 | $742 | — | — | 14 | $742 – $9.7k |
| 2 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $1.2k | $1.2k | $133 | 11% | 3–30 | $980 – $1.3k |
| 3 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $1.2k | $1.2k | $133 | 11% | 3–30 | $980 – $1.3k |
| 4 | Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Inc City, OK | $2.1k | $2.4k | $503 | 21% | 3–30 | $2.1k – $3.2k |
| 5 | Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, IN | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | 2–20 | $1.1k – $17.5k |
| 6 | Prisma Health Patewood Hospital GREENVILLE, SC | $8.0k | $8.0k | — | — | 1–10 | $487 – $8.0k |
| 7 | Mercy Hospital Rogers dba Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas Vista, AR | $1.8k | $1.4k | $591 | 41% | 1–10 | $593 – $1.8k |
| 8 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $1.3k | $1.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.3k – $1.3k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $1.3k | $1.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.3k – $1.3k |
| 10 | Progress West Hospital O'Fallon, MO | $503 | $503 | — | — | 1–10 | $503 – $13.6k |
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