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
HB Introduction Long GI Tube Separate Procedure
Low
$20
Average
$1.3k
Median
$945
High
$119.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $1.3k | $7.8k | $8.6k | 111% | 24–240 | $250 – $29.9k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $738 | $3.9k | $9.0k | 229% | 9–90 | $173 – $29.9k |
| 3 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $84 | $84 | $14 | 16% | 8–80 | $70 – $97 |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $128 | $727 | $685 | 94% | 8–80 | $42 – $1.8k |
| 5 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $759 | $1.2k | $701 | 59% | 8–80 | $65 – $2.9k |
| 6 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $759 | $1.2k | $701 | 59% | 8–80 | $65 – $2.9k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $350 | $471 | $244 | 52% | 6–60 | $179 – $959 |
| 8 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $331 | $446 | $231 | 52% | 6–60 | $170 – $908 |
| 9 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $1.5k | $1.5k | $367 | 25% | 5–50 | $902 – $2.2k |
| 10 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $1.2k | $1.3k | $331 | 26% | 5–50 | $192 – $1.8k |
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