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
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Based on 59–455 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$90
Average
$4.7k
Median
$4.2k
High
$44.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $37.9k | $44.1k | $26.5k | 60% | 30–300 | $425 – $75.8k |
| 2 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $4.0k | $4.5k | $1.4k | 32% | 15 | $2.4k – $10.0k |
| 3 | Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Livingston, NJ | $4.3k | $4.6k | $1.7k | 38% | 5–50 | $142 – $8.6k |
| 4 | Riverside Hospital Inc Newport News, VA | $3.9k | $5.4k | $3.1k | 59% | 2–20 | $3.1k – $14.1k |
| 5 | The Presbyterian Hospital Charlotte, NC | $3.9k | $4.3k | $1.2k | 27% | 1–10 | $3.8k – $7.6k |
| 6 | Dignity Community Care Glendale, CA | $4.3k | $3.3k | $2.4k | 73% | 1–10 | $378 – $7.1k |
| 7 | UCLA West Valley Medical Center West Hills, CA | $5.0k | $5.8k | $1.7k | 29% | 1–10 | $4.8k – $11.7k |
| 8 | East Georgia Regional Medical Center LLC Statesboro, GA | $5.7k | $9.1k | $8.0k | 88% | 1–10 | $445 – $29.6k |
| 9 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $11.4k | $11.4k | — | — | 1–10 | $11.4k – $11.4k |
| 10 | Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital Santa Monica, CA | $5.4k | $6.6k | $2.8k | 43% | 1–10 | $4.9k – $14.5k |
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