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
$7
Average
$6.0k
Median
$4.4k
High
$42.9k
Each hospital's average Blue Cross Blue Shield rate, under the methodology and billing class chosen below.
1072 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 10.3× 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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iThe hospitals that file a Blue Cross Blue Shield rate for this code, one row per hospital and set of terms (billing class, payment method, setting). Rates under different terms are never blended, so the terms are shown under each hospital’s name. Figures are the hospital’s averages across its plans.| # | Plans | |||||||
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| 1 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital Woodstock, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 6 | $17.2k | $18.8k | $16.7k | 89% | 696 | $4.0k – $68.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $30.6k | $29.7k | $20.7k | 70% | 658 | $5.3k – $68.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 7 | $24.8k | $25.9k | $18.9k | 73% | 198 | $6.6k – $67.5k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital Woodstock, IL other · outpatient | 1 | $8.6k | $8.6k | — | — | 87 | $8.6k – $8.6k |
| 5 | BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER BATON ROUGE, LA fee schedule · outpatient | 4 | $4.7k | $4.7k | $1.7k | 37% | 81–162 | $2.7k – $6.9k |
| 6 | Medical Park Hospital LLC Winston-Salem, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 3 | $1.2k | $1.0k | $332 | 33% | 63–72 | $537 – $1.2k |
| 7 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI professional · other · both | 1 | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | 56 | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL other · outpatient | 2 | $6.2k | $6.2k | $1.6k | 25% | 44 | $4.7k – $7.8k |
| 9 | Novant Health Matthews Medical Center LLC Matthews, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 3 | $1.6k | $1.2k | $473 | 39% | 37–46 | $554 – $1.6k |
| 10 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $12.7k | $12.3k | $3.8k | 30% | 36–54 | $6.6k – $17.1k |
| 11 | SOUTH MIAMI HOSPITAL Weston, FL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 5 | $6.1k | $4.8k | $1.8k | 37% | 30–102 | $1.2k – $6.3k |
| 12 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL facility · case rate · outpatient | 4 | $6.5k | $6.3k | $804 | 13% | 23–41 | $5.0k – $7.1k |
| 13 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $5.4k | $5.4k | $1.3k | 24% | 14–23 | $4.1k – $6.7k |
| 14 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Mountain Home, ID other · outpatient | 1 | $5.8k | $5.8k | $1.5k | 26% | 12–21 | $4.3k – $7.2k |
| 15 | BAPTIST HOSPITAL OF MIAMI PLANTATION, FL percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 5 | $3.9k | $5.2k | $2.7k | 51% | 10–100 | $2.9k – $9.8k |
| 16 | BETHESDA HOSPITAL BOYNTON BEACH, FL case rate · outpatient | 3 | $12.2k | $12.5k | $1.0k | 8% | 8–80 | $11.5k – $14.2k |
| 17 | BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL Delray Beach, FL case rate · outpatient | 4 | $11.1k | $11.0k | $939 | 9% | 8–80 | $9.5k – $12.1k |
| 18 | HH HEALTH SYSTEM DEKALB REGIONAL Payne, AL fee schedule · outpatient | 2 | $5.4k | $5.4k | $434 | 8% | 4–40 | $5.0k – $5.8k |
| 19 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO fee schedule · both | 4 | $3.1k | $3.3k | $532 | 16% | 4–40 | $2.8k – $4.2k |
| 20 | ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL Albany, NY facility · case rate · outpatient | 10 | $3.9k | $4.3k | $2.4k | 57% | 3–30 | $1.5k – $8.7k |
| 21 | Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corporation Parkersburg, WV facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $27.7k | $27.5k | $570 | 2% | 3–30 | $26.7k – $28.0k |
| 22 | Cumberland County Hospital System Inc Fayetteville, NC facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $1 | $1.5k | $2.1k | 141% | 3–30 | $1 – $4.4k |
| 23 | GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL INC Falls, NY facility · case rate · outpatient | 11 | $4.7k | $3.9k | $1.5k | 40% | 3–30 | $1.6k – $6.3k |
| 24 | Novant Health Mint Hill Medical Center, LLC Charlotte, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 3 | $3.8k | $3.2k | $824 | 26% | 3–30 | $2.0k – $3.8k |
| 25 | Prairie Lakes Health Care System Inc. Watertown, SD fee schedule · both | 21 | $4.9k | $4.9k | — | — | 3–30 | $4.9k – $4.9k |
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