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
$36
Average
$6.0k
Median
$2.8k
High
$65.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $16.7k | $14.9k | $7.2k | 48% | 3,384 | $1.5k – $25.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $14.5k | $16.1k | $10.0k | 62% | 1,379–1,388 | $1.1k – $36.2k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $14.9k | $13.6k | $7.0k | 51% | 1,092 | $3.3k – $30.5k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $18.5k | $17.7k | $6.6k | 37% | 910 | $5.6k – $31.2k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $25.8k | $29.0k | $14.4k | 50% | 456 | $6.0k – $61.7k |
| 6 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $10.2k | $10.5k | $1.5k | 14% | 36–90 | $8.9k – $12.7k |
| 7 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $14.2k | $13.8k | $7.2k | 52% | 33–330 | $3.9k – $22.4k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $15.8k | $16.2k | $5.1k | 32% | 31–310 | $4.3k – $23.4k |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $1.5k | $1.6k | $758 | 47% | 24–96 | $723 – $11.8k |
| 10 | Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato 56001-4752 | $1.5k | $1.2k | $510 | 41% | 20–200 | $346 – $4.6k |
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