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
Open Biopsy/Excision Inguinofemoral Nodes
Based on 4,664–9,110 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$257
Average
$5.3k
Median
$4.6k
High
$77.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $15.9k | $20.6k | $15.2k | 74% | 1,963 | $2.1k – $53.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $11k | $19.5k | $16.9k | 87% | 884 | $1.6k – $55.8k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $11k | $20.6k | $18.2k | 89% | 481 | $2.1k – $54.5k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $9.6k | $14.9k | $13.5k | 90% | 420 | $1.8k – $45.4k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $9.8k | $11.8k | $8.4k | 71% | 360 | $2.1k – $35.4k |
| 6 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $7.6k | $8.8k | $7.0k | 80% | 99–585 | $2.3k – $33.7k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $11k | $15.3k | $11.2k | 73% | 41–410 | $2.0k – $37.9k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $8.3k | $11.7k | $9.5k | 82% | 41–410 | $784 – $35.4k |
| 9 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $6.7k | $8.2k | $4.9k | 60% | 26–260 | $2.1k – $24.6k |
| 10 | Baton Rouge General Medical Center BATON ROUGE, LA | $3.6k | $4.9k | $1.8k | 36% | 21–210 | $3.5k – $7.9k |
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