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
$90
Average
$7.9k
Median
$3.6k
High
$152.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $20.4k | $30.7k | $25.6k | 84% | 3,329–3,338 | $1.3k – $80.8k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $11.9k | $19.8k | $17.9k | 91% | 2,088 | $2.3k – $68.9k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $12.1k | $26.7k | $21.2k | 79% | 682 | $2.2k – $67.5k |
| 4 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $4.8k | $10.3k | $12.2k | 119% | 225–405 | $3.9k – $37.5k |
| 5 | South Miami Hospital SOUTH MIAMI, FL | $3.5k | $4.5k | $2.7k | 59% | 124–340 | $1.2k – $12.6k |
| 6 | Medical Park Hospital LLC Winston-Salem, NC | $759 | $871 | $370 | 42% | 68–122 | $438 – $1.4k |
| 7 | Boca Raton Regional Hospital BOCA RATON, FL | $3.3k | $3.3k | $1.3k | 38% | 68–86 | $2.0k – $4.6k |
| 8 | Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center LLC Charlotte, NC | $1.8k | $1.8k | $153 | 8% | 52–88 | $1.6k – $2.1k |
| 9 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $13.6k | $14.0k | $4.9k | 35% | 45–144 | $6.6k – $26.5k |
| 10 | Beebe Medical Center Inc. Lewes, DE | $3.5k | $3.3k | $1.2k | 36% | 42–96 | $1.5k – $5.3k |
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