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 Biopsy of Salivary Gland Needle
Low
$64
Average
$1.9k
Median
$810
High
$13.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $242 | $242 | $13 | 5% | 28 | $229 – $255 |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $238 | $238 | $34 | 14% | 28 | $204 – $272 |
| 3 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $742 | $742 | — | — | 1–10 | $742 – $742 |
| 4 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $689 | $689 | — | — | 1–10 | $689 – $689 |
| 5 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $689 | $689 | — | — | 1–10 | $689 – $689 |
| 6 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $691 | $691 | — | — | — | $691 – $691 |
| 7 | Methodist Hospital Hill Country Fredericksburg, TX | $365 | $365 | — | — | — | $365 – $365 |
| 8 | Rex Hospital, Inc. Raleigh, NC | $7.0k | $7.0k | — | — | — | $7.0k – $7.0k |
| 9 | Metro Knoxville HMA LLC Powell, TN | $637 | $637 | $5 | 1% | — | $632 – $642 |
| 10 | University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | $4.5k | $5.2k | $1.0k | 19% | — | $4.5k – $6.6k |
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