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
Bx/Exc Lymph Node Open Int Mammary Node
Based on 59–590 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$91
Average
$4.8k
Median
$4.1k
High
$186.6k
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| 1 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $66.4k | $109.7k | $88.9k | 81% | 30–300 | $1.6k – $264.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $185.2k | $186.6k | $78.6k | 42% | 19–190 | $61.9k – $264.5k |
| 3 | Baptist Hospital Of Miami MIAMI, FL | $36.8k | $36.8k | $36.3k | 98% | 2–20 | $555 – $73.1k |
| 4 | Stanford Health Care Stanford, CA | $677 | $950 | $2.5k | 261% | 2–20 | $52 – $22.1k |
| 5 | Riverside Hospital Inc Newport News, VA | $3.9k | $5.4k | $3.1k | 59% | 2–20 | $3.1k – $14.1k |
| 6 | Medical Park Hospital LLC Winston-Salem, NC | $3.8k | $4.0k | $1.4k | 35% | 1–10 | $1.8k – $7.6k |
| 7 | UCLA West Valley Medical Center West Hills, CA | $5.0k | $5.8k | $1.7k | 29% | 1–10 | $4.8k – $11.7k |
| 8 | Dignity Health Phoenix, AZ | $4.1k | $3.9k | $958 | 24% | 1–10 | $595 – $6.4k |
| 9 | Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital Santa Monica, CA | $5.4k | $6.6k | $2.8k | 43% | 1–10 | $4.9k – $14.5k |
| 10 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $3.9k | $4.1k | $1.9k | 46% | — | $860 – $7.3k |
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