CPT 42809
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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Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Low
$25
Average
$767
Median
$444
High
$37.0k
Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 891 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 5.3× 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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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Paso Children's Hospital El Paso, TX | $540 | $470 | $152 | 32% | 128–155 | $84 – $638 |
| 2 | WRMC Hospital Operating Corporation North Wilkesboro, NC | $929 | $851 | $356 | 42% | 4–40 | $332 – $1.6k |
| 3 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $156 | $153 | $57 | 37% | 3–30 | $59 – $242 |
| 4 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $175 | $176 | $43 | 25% | 2–20 | $107 – $255 |
| 5 | The Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc Macon, GA | $335 | $334 | $88 | 26% | 2–20 | $155 – $480 |
| 6 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $550 | $513 | $98 | 19% | 2–20 | $56 – $621 |
| 7 | Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc Lodi, CA | $298 | $340 | $176 | 52% | 2–20 | $114 – $692 |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $903 | $882 | $154 | 17% | 2–20 | $198 – $4.4k |
| 9 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $980 | $980 | — | — | 2–20 | $980 – $980 |
| 10 | Novant Health Matthews Medical Center LLC Matthews, NC | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | 2–20 | $1.2k – $1.2k |
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