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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Based on 7,044–14,316 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$201
Average
$4.5k
Median
$4.0k
High
$36.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $10.7k | $11.7k | $7.4k | 63% | 2,288 | $1.4k – $28.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $8.9k | $10.8k | $7.7k | 71% | 980 | $2.6k – $25.8k |
| 3 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $12.5k | $15.7k | $8.8k | 56% | 960 | $4.4k – $35.4k |
| 4 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $15.0k | $17.1k | $11.4k | 67% | 718–898 | $1.9k – $43.2k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $9.2k | $10.7k | $8.0k | 75% | 532 | $1.7k – $28.4k |
| 6 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $5.8k | $5.8k | $1.9k | 33% | 89–215 | $2.6k – $9.8k |
| 7 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $3.3k | $5.2k | $3.1k | 61% | 74–191 | $2.8k – $13.7k |
| 8 | Affinity Hospital LLC Birmingham, AL | $3.8k | $19.9k | $24.3k | 123% | 66–75 | $273 – $71.4k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $3.3k | $2.9k | $1.4k | 48% | 48–111 | $253 – $7.1k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $3.3k | $2.9k | $1.4k | 48% | 48–111 | $253 – $7.1k |
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