CPT 42802
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
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Low
$0
Average
$5.0k
Median
$2.7k
High
$50k
Showing only prices reported under the fee schedule methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 228 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 74.2× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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Reflects negotiated fee schedule rates with commercial payers.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $2.5k | $2.5k | $1.6k | 61% | — | $991 – $4.1k |
| 2 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $3.1k | $3.1k | — | — | — | $3.1k – $3.1k |
| 3 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $1.1k | $1.1k | $184 | 16% | — | $946 – $1.3k |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $524 | $477 | $176 | 37% | — | $139 – $655 |
| 5 | Kettering Medical Center Miamisburg, OH | $4.8k | $4.8k | $848 | 18% | — | $4.0k – $5.7k |
| 6 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $0 |
| 7 | Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital Baytown, TX | $5.7k | $5.2k | $2.4k | 47% | — | $1.7k – $7.5k |
| 8 | Wellstar Kennestone Hospital Marietta, GA | $3.2k | $3.2k | $1.9k | 59% | — | $1.3k – $5.1k |
| 9 | MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center Laguna Hills, CA | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | — | $1.1k – $1.1k |
| 10 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $50k | $50k | — | — | — | $50k – $50k |
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