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 51–510 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$9
Average
$1.4k
Median
$607
High
$241.7k
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| 1 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $12.0k | $20.5k | $16.0k | 78% | 30–300 | $3.3k – $47.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $33.5k | $33.8k | $14.2k | 42% | 19–190 | $11.2k – $47.9k |
| 3 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $398 | $815 | $1.8k | 225% | 2–20 | $49 – $14.3k |
| 4 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $308 | $716 | $1.1k | 151% | — | $228 – $4.1k |
| 5 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $496 | $496 | $99 | 20% | — | $397 – $596 |
| 6 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $2.6k | $2.7k | $249 | 9% | — | $2.0k – $2.9k |
| 7 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $1.1k | $1.4k | $1.2k | 87% | — | $254 – $3.2k |
| 8 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $364 | $337 | $85 | 25% | — | $181 – $492 |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $408 | $676 | $543 | 80% | — | $199 – $2.3k |
| 10 | Aurora Medical Center Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant, WI | $1.7k | $1.8k | $338 | 19% | — | $1.2k – $2.3k |
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