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 Open Deep Axillary Node
Low
$10
Average
$5.4k
Median
$4.3k
High
$47.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $2.0k | $2.8k | $1.3k | 45% | 261 | $1.8k – $4.6k |
| 2 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center Of Green Bay Inc Hospital Sisters GREEN BAY, WI | $4.0k | $3.8k | $1.1k | 30% | 68–284 | $2.6k – $5.5k |
| 3 | Renown Regional Medical Center Reno, NV | $6.0k | $6.0k | $972 | 16% | 56–65 | $4.8k – $7.2k |
| 4 | Boca Raton Regional Hospital BOCA RATON, FL | $10.8k | $10.0k | $2.8k | 28% | 40–112 | $2.5k – $12.1k |
| 5 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $4.0k | $3.3k | $1.6k | 48% | 38–56 | $1.0k – $5.2k |
| 6 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL | $2.4k | $3.3k | $1.7k | 51% | 25–61 | $2.0k – $7.1k |
| 7 | St Nicholas Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis SHEBOYGAN, WI | $4.3k | $4.2k | $1.1k | 27% | 16–160 | $2.6k – $5.8k |
| 8 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $2.5k | $3.5k | $1.7k | 49% | 15 | $2.3k – $7.6k |
| 9 | Renown South Meadows Medical Center Reno, NV | $6.0k | $6.0k | $1.2k | 20% | 14–23 | $4.8k – $7.2k |
| 10 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $4.0k | $4.6k | $2.1k | 46% | 12–120 | $1.5k – $8.7k |
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