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
Low
$1
Average
$2.4k
Median
$1.8k
High
$73.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $3.7k | $5.3k | $5.3k | 99% | 4,952–4,961 | $272 – $16.7k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $2.1k | $5.0k | $5.2k | 102% | 2,805 | $311 – $14.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $1.2k | $5.0k | $4.9k | 96% | 1,624 | $213 – $14.0k |
| 4 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $1.7k | $1.6k | $156 | 10% | 278–332 | $1.3k – $1.8k |
| 5 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $469 | $632 | $327 | 52% | 191–290 | $241 – $4.1k |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $445 | $598 | $310 | 52% | 191–290 | $228 – $4.1k |
| 7 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $3.2k | $2.9k | $861 | 30% | 183–192 | $673 – $3.6k |
| 8 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $2.8k | $2.5k | $1.4k | 55% | 116–512 | $58 – $5.7k |
| 9 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $2.2k | $2.0k | $454 | 22% | 102–273 | $800 – $2.6k |
| 10 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $3.0k | $2.2k | $1.0k | 47% | 96–186 | $69 – $6.0k |
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