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 Open Biopsy/Excision Inguinofemoral Nodes
Low
$0
Average
$5.2k
Median
$4.5k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $6.4k | $6.4k | — | — | 85 | $6.4k – $6.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $5.8k | $5.8k | — | — | 70 | $5.8k – $5.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $6.9k | $6.9k | — | — | 39 | $6.9k – $6.9k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $4.4k | $4.4k | — | — | 36 | $4.4k – $4.4k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $6.8k | $6.8k | — | — | 26 | $6.8k – $6.8k |
| 6 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $10.5k | $11.1k | $5.1k | 46% | 24–240 | $3.6k – $23.1k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $2.6k | $3.1k | $798 | 25% | 10–100 | $2.6k – $4.4k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $4.4k | $3.8k | $926 | 24% | 10–100 | $2.4k – $4.4k |
| 9 | Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Fairfax, VA | $9.5k | $9.7k | $3.7k | 38% | 8–80 | $3.6k – $15.5k |
| 10 | Inova Loudoun Hospital Leesburg, VA | $12.7k | $13.3k | $4.1k | 31% | 6–60 | $7.8k – $20.7k |
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