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
INTRO GASTROINTESTINAL TUBE
Low
$0
Average
$1.3k
Median
$1.0k
High
$7.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $877 | $973 | $282 | 29% | 17 | $823 – $1.8k |
| 2 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $864 | $984 | $557 | 57% | 15–150 | $266 – $2.0k |
| 3 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $2.2k | $1.9k | $873 | 46% | 15–150 | $727 – $2.9k |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $948 | $1.4k | $822 | 59% | 9–90 | $690 – $2.5k |
| 5 | HealthEast Woodwinds Hospital Woodbury, MN | $2.8k | $2.8k | $202 | 7% | 6–60 | $2.5k – $3.0k |
| 6 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $1.4k | $1.4k | $1.1k | 79% | 4–40 | $292 – $2.6k |
| 7 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $906 | $813 | $595 | 73% | 3–30 | $0 – $1.9k |
| 8 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $1.1k | $1.8k | $1.1k | 60% | 3–30 | $960 – $3.8k |
| 9 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $3.7k | $3.7k | — | — | 3–30 | $3.7k – $3.7k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Wyoming, MN | $977 | $977 | — | — | 3–30 | $977 – $977 |
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