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
Puncture of Shunt Tubing
Low
$10
Average
$1.7k
Median
$1.1k
High
$21.1k
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1023 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 8.9× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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iThe hospitals that file a Blue Cross Blue Shield rate for this code, one row per hospital and set of terms (billing class, payment method, setting). Rates under different terms are never blended, so the terms are shown under each hospital’s name. Figures are the hospital’s averages across its plans.| # | Plans | |||||||
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| 1 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $264 | $251 | $44 | 17% | 8–80 | $178 – $299 |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $250 | $238 | $42 | 17% | 8–80 | $169 – $283 |
| 3 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI professional · other · both | 1 | $420 | $420 | — | — | 4–40 | $420 – $420 |
| 4 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $1.9k | $1.9k | — | — | 2–20 | $1.9k – $1.9k |
| 5 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $302 | $302 | $101 | 34% | 2–20 | $200 – $403 |
| 6 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $302 | $302 | $101 | 34% | 2–20 | $200 – $403 |
| 7 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA other · both | 1 | $822 | $822 | — | — | 2–20 | $822 – $822 |
| 8 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA other · outpatient | 1 | $685 | $685 | — | — | 2–20 | $685 – $685 |
| 9 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Dallas, TX percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 4 | $752 | $727 | $108 | 15% | 2–20 | $559 – $846 |
| 10 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO other · outpatient | 1 | $707 | $707 | — | — | 1–10 | $707 – $707 |
| 11 | Christian Hospital St. Louis, MO other · outpatient | 1 | $707 | $707 | — | — | 1–10 | $707 – $707 |
| 12 | Christian Hospital St. Louis, MO percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $3.5k | $3.5k | — | — | 1–10 | $3.5k – $3.5k |
| 13 | LUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD PALO ALTO, CA fee schedule · both | 3 | $292 | $271 | $49 | 18% | 1–10 | $204 – $318 |
| 14 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN facility · fee schedule · both | 1 | $771 | $771 | — | — | 1–10 | $771 – $771 |
| 15 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN facility · fee schedule · outpatient | 1 | $771 | $771 | — | — | 1–10 | $771 – $771 |
| 16 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN facility · percent of total billed charges · bothfrom % of charges | 10 | $2.1k | $1.8k | $603 | 33% | 1–10 | $476 – $2.2k |
| 17 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 1 | $1.9k | $1.9k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.9k – $1.9k |
| 18 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN professional · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 8 | $606 | $611 | $20 | 3% | 1–10 | $592 – $653 |
| 19 | ROBERT PACKER HOSPITAL Sayre, PA facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | 2 | $470 | $470 | $188 | 40% | 1–10 | $282 – $658 |
| 20 | St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Ypsilanti, MI facility · fee schedule · both | 2 | $475 | $469 | $31 | 7% | 1–10 | $291 – $475 |
| 21 | St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Ypsilanti, MI facility · other · both | 2 | $543 | $543 | $149 | 27% | 1–10 | $394 – $692 |
| 22 | St Luke's Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, LTD Jerome, ID other · outpatient | 1 | $796 | $796 | — | — | 1–10 | $796 – $796 |
| 23 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Mountain Home, ID other · outpatient | 1 | $770 | $770 | — | — | 1–10 | $770 – $770 |
| 24 | Wentworth Douglass Hospital Dover, NH other · both | 1 | $709 | $709 | — | — | 1–10 | $709 – $709 |
| 25 | ADVENTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER TEHACHAPI Tehachapi, CA fee schedule · outpatient | 4 | $122 | $106 | $32 | 30% | — | $52 – $130 |
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