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Original text from hospital filings
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Low
$38
Average
$5.7k
Median
$3.1k
High
$50.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $11.9k | $12.7k | $7.1k | 55% | 2,068 | $1.4k – $28.5k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $16.6k | $18.4k | $7.7k | 42% | 768 | $6.8k – $35.4k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $13.0k | $13.4k | $7.2k | 54% | 735 | $3.4k – $25.8k |
| 4 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $17.3k | $18.0k | $11.3k | 63% | 715–868 | $1.9k – $43.2k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $14.4k | $14.4k | $7.1k | 49% | 364 | $2.7k – $28.4k |
| 6 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $8.7k | $8.9k | $1.8k | 20% | 34–88 | $5.5k – $11.3k |
| 7 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $16.8k | $16.8k | $8.9k | 53% | 33–330 | $4.2k – $27.4k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $14.5k | $15.0k | $4.8k | 32% | 31–310 | $3.9k – $21.7k |
| 9 | East Georgia Regional Medical Center LLC Statesboro, GA | $10.7k | $11.3k | $9.0k | 80% | 25–52 | $1.7k – $25.3k |
| 10 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $6.1k | $6.5k | $742 | 11% | 17–62 | $5.4k – $7.9k |
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