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
Biopsy/removal lymph nodes
Low
$0
Average
$5.7k
Median
$5.0k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $5.5k | $6.7k | $3.6k | 54% | 348–528 | $2.1k – $15.7k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $8.6k | $8.6k | — | — | 261 | $8.6k – $8.6k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $4.7k | $5.6k | $1.4k | 25% | 220 | $4.7k – $7.8k |
| 4 | Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Fairfax, VA | $5.6k | $7.0k | $3.5k | 50% | 152–368 | $2.6k – $15.5k |
| 5 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $2.1k | $2.6k | $800 | 31% | 58–76 | $2.1k – $3.8k |
| 6 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $4.0k | $3.6k | $2.1k | 60% | 54–378 | $244 – $9.6k |
| 7 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $2.8k | $2.7k | $980 | 37% | 53–134 | $367 – $4.0k |
| 8 | Inova Loudoun Hospital Leesburg, VA | $6.5k | $7.4k | $3.9k | 53% | 44–224 | $2.1k – $15.5k |
| 9 | Herbert J Thomas Memorial Hospital Association South Charleston, WV | $3.9k | $6.2k | $5.3k | 86% | 44–53 | $823 – $18.9k |
| 10 | Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria, VA | $5.6k | $6.9k | $3.6k | 53% | 42–222 | $2.6k – $15.2k |
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