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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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 | $2.5k | $2.5k | — | — | 360 | $2.5k – $2.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $3.0k | $2.6k | $582 | 22% | 350 | $1.7k – $3.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $2.5k | $2.5k | — | — | 260 | $2.5k – $2.5k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $6.1k | $6.1k | — | — | 57 | $6.1k – $6.1k |
| 5 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $1.5k | $2.7k | $1.8k | 66% | 55–127 | $1.3k – $10.5k |
| 6 | La Porte Hospital Company LLC La Porte, IN | $3.5k | $5.0k | $7.4k | 147% | 45–90 | $1.7k – $43.1k |
| 7 | St Josephs Hospital Health Center Syracuse, NY | $9.0k | $7.1k | $2.5k | 35% | 30–75 | $3.6k – $9.0k |
| 8 | PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Vancouver, WA | $3.9k | $4.8k | $2.6k | 53% | 30 | $1.4k – $11.9k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $3.3k | $2.9k | $921 | 32% | 21–66 | $1.7k – $6.3k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $3.3k | $2.9k | $921 | 32% | 21–66 | $1.7k – $6.3k |
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