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
Low
$143
Average
$7.3k
Median
$3.7k
High
$87.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $17.8k | $21.1k | $15.2k | 72% | 1,846 | $2.1k – $53.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $11k | $20.3k | $17.1k | 84% | 799 | $1.6k – $55.8k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $11k | $21.5k | $18.4k | 86% | 429 | $2.1k – $54.5k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $11k | $12.5k | $8.5k | 68% | 300 | $2.1k – $35.4k |
| 5 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $10.6k | $17.1k | $14.0k | 82% | 294 | $1.8k – $45.4k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $13.6k | $17.5k | $10.7k | 62% | 31–310 | $2.0k – $37.9k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $9.9k | $14.2k | $9.5k | 67% | 26–260 | $1.8k – $35.4k |
| 8 | Indiana University Health Bloomington Inc. Bloomington, IN | $17.9k | $17.9k | — | — | 17 | $17.9k – $17.9k |
| 9 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $4.7k | $10.4k | $11.9k | 115% | 15–150 | $2.3k – $33.7k |
| 10 | Baptist Hospital Of Miami MIAMI, FL | $9.0k | $7.6k | $2.4k | 31% | 7–70 | $4.5k – $10.7k |
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