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
HC PARACENTESIS ABD WO IMG
Based on 1,791–7,092 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$25
Average
$1.7k
Median
$1.3k
High
$28.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $1.9k | $1.7k | $402 | 23% | 889–1,132 | $479 – $3.2k |
| 2 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $923 | $1.2k | $1.1k | 87% | 165–291 | $5 – $4.1k |
| 3 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $1.5k | $1.6k | $947 | 59% | 72–369 | $545 – $4.1k |
| 4 | Dignity Health Merced, CA | $1.2k | $2.3k | $2.9k | 128% | 38 | $67 – $12.0k |
| 5 | Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, TX | $1.8k | $1.9k | $860 | 45% | 28–280 | $615 – $4.2k |
| 6 | Hendrick Medical Center Abilene, TX | $1.8k | $1.9k | $860 | 45% | 28–280 | $615 – $4.2k |
| 7 | Dignity Health Santa Cruz, CA | $2.0k | $4.3k | $5.7k | 133% | 26 | $67 – $23.4k |
| 8 | West Virginia Health Care Cooperative Inc. Summersville, WV | $816 | $904 | $650 | 72% | 25–151 | $79 – $2.1k |
| 9 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.2k | $1.2k | $264 | 23% | 24 | $762 – $2.3k |
| 10 | Sierra Nevada Memorial-miners Hospital Grass Valley, CA | $2.3k | $2.8k | $2.9k | 102% | 19 | $67 – $14.9k |
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