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 Fetal Contraction Stress Test
Based on 151–1,510 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$25
Average
$872
Median
$420
High
$174.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $433 | $761 | $673 | 88% | 48–480 | $90 – $2.3k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $576 | $802 | $723 | 90% | 19–190 | $108 – $2.3k |
| 3 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $184 | $191 | $77 | 40% | 14–140 | $101 – $462 |
| 4 | Methodist Lebonheur Germantown Hosp GERMANTOWN, TN | $184 | $482 | $608 | 126% | 10–100 | $13 – $2.1k |
| 5 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Elizabethtown, KY | $770 | $1.3k | $1.1k | 88% | 8–80 | $178 – $4.0k |
| 6 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Richmond, KY | $895 | $1.4k | $1.0k | 74% | 7–70 | $178 – $3.8k |
| 7 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $846 | $1.4k | $1.1k | 84% | 6–60 | $158 – $4.0k |
| 8 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $217 | $287 | $144 | 50% | 5–50 | $129 – $584 |
| 9 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $200 | $304 | $282 | 93% | 5–50 | $122 – $1.7k |
| 10 | Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL | $514 | $532 | $164 | 31% | 4–40 | $304 – $758 |
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