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Original text from hospital filings
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Low
$0
Average
$4.0k
Median
$3.4k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | 220 | $2.3k – $2.3k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $2.6k | $2.6k | — | — | 175 | $2.6k – $2.6k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $2.8k | $2.5k | $496 | 20% | 140 | $1.7k – $2.8k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $4.4k | $4.4k | — | — | 96 | $4.4k – $4.4k |
| 5 | Affinity Hospital LLC Birmingham, AL | $3.5k | $3.7k | $1.4k | 37% | 66–75 | $2.6k – $7.5k |
| 6 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $1.5k | $2.7k | $1.8k | 66% | 46–82 | $1.3k – $10.5k |
| 7 | St Josephs Hospital Health Center Syracuse, NY | $9.0k | $7.1k | $2.5k | 35% | 43–142 | $3.6k – $9.0k |
| 8 | Longview Medical Center LP Longview, TX | $2.1k | $2.0k | $1.1k | 52% | 35–80 | $933 – $4.2k |
| 9 | Jefferson County HMA LLC Jefferson City, TN | $3.0k | $2.8k | $1.4k | 50% | 29 | $1.1k – $4.8k |
| 10 | Gadsden Regional Medical Center LLC Gadsden, AL | $3.0k | $3.2k | $389 | 12% | 27–36 | $2.9k – $3.9k |
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