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 10,164–19,722 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$5
Average
$4.4k
Median
$3.9k
High
$36.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $13.3k | $13.7k | $7.7k | 57% | 3,744 | $1.5k – $25.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $10.7k | $10.9k | $7.6k | 70% | 1,456 | $2.5k – $30.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $12.9k | $15.3k | $10.1k | 66% | 1,379–1,388 | $1.1k – $36.2k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $14.2k | $13.0k | $8.8k | 68% | 1,330 | $1.7k – $31.2k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $22.9k | $24.2k | $16.0k | 66% | 570 | $3.6k – $61.7k |
| 6 | St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Ypsilanti, MI | $3.1k | $3.0k | $783 | 26% | 64–145 | $548 – $5.1k |
| 7 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $4.8k | $6.3k | $3.6k | 58% | 58–328 | $2.8k – $14.3k |
| 8 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $2.2k | $2.8k | $1.7k | 61% | 56–137 | $1.3k – $10.5k |
| 9 | La Porte Hospital Company LLC La Porte, IN | $3.5k | $6.7k | $11.0k | 165% | 48–120 | $180 – $43.1k |
| 10 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $13.7k | $12.7k | $7.5k | 59% | 41–410 | $1.7k – $23.4k |
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