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 195–1,833 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$114
Average
$4.3k
Median
$3.9k
High
$36.0k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $15.0k | $16.2k | $9.6k | 59% | 52–520 | $2.1k – $30.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $9.9k | $13.6k | $10.6k | 78% | 41–410 | $2.1k – $34.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $23.9k | $24.1k | $10.1k | 42% | 38–380 | $8.0k – $34.1k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $30.9k | $35.6k | $25.0k | 70% | 28–280 | $5.4k – $71.4k |
| 5 | Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, CA | $4.8k | $6.2k | $2.7k | 43% | 13 | $4.0k – $12.2k |
| 6 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $887 | $2.1k | $2.8k | 136% | 3–30 | $111 – $17.9k |
| 7 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $3.2k | $2.7k | $1.8k | 69% | 2–20 | $206 – $8.5k |
| 8 | Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VA | $3.9k | $4.8k | $3.6k | 75% | 2–20 | $777 – $11.4k |
| 9 | The William W Backus Hospital NORWICH, CT | $1.4k | $3.5k | $3.5k | 101% | 1–10 | $1.4k – $10.2k |
| 10 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $3.0k | $5.5k | $5.9k | 108% | 1–10 | $297 – $21.6k |
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