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 Cntrst Njx Assmt Absc/Cst via Drg Cath/Tube Spx
Based on 13,535–20,384 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$1.4k
Median
$763
High
$13.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $935 | $1.5k | $1.3k | 90% | 3,502–3,520 | $41 – $4.6k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $810 | $990 | $702 | 71% | 2,640 | $214 – $3.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.1k | $1.6k | $1.4k | 84% | 2,178–2,187 | $50 – $4.6k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $1.5k | $3.4k | $3.8k | 110% | 1,941–1,968 | $232 – $12.9k |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $846 | $666 | $254 | 38% | 587–920 | $31 – $1.8k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $725 | $1.5k | $1.5k | 98% | 518 | $116 – $4.3k |
| 7 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $5.5k | $5.4k | $3.8k | 69% | 445–571 | $547 – $10.3k |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $898 | $1.1k | $1.1k | 106% | 140–320 | $504 – $6.4k |
| 9 | Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD | $555 | $471 | $253 | 54% | 135–162 | $0 – $752 |
| 10 | St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City City, KS | $1.5k | $2.0k | $1.7k | 88% | 108–666 | $29 – $7.2k |
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