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
Craniectomy W/Excision Tumor/Lesion Skull
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Low
$11
Average
$6.3k
Median
$2.8k
High
$50k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $3.1k | $2.6k | $922 | 36% | 260 | $749 – $3.4k |
| 2 | Methodist Lebonheur Germantown Hosp GERMANTOWN, TN | $1.1k | $2.1k | $2.7k | 132% | 1–10 | $30 – $9.3k |
| 3 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $1.1k | $4.2k | $6.0k | 141% | 1–10 | $30 – $18.0k |
| 4 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $651 | $709 | $124 | 17% | 1–10 | $587 – $965 |
| 5 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $1.1k | $4.9k | $6.3k | 129% | 1–10 | $1.0k – $18.3k |
| 6 | St Joseph Mercy Oakland Pontiac, MI | $5.1k | $4.1k | $1.5k | 37% | 1–10 | $718 – $5.1k |
| 7 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $4.1k | $4.4k | $2.1k | 47% | — | $2.0k – $7.0k |
| 8 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $3.8k | $3.8k | — | — | — | $3.8k – $3.8k |
| 9 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $17.1k | $17.1k | $2.6k | 15% | — | $14.5k – $19.7k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1.3k | $2.7k | $2.0k | 76% | — | $843 – $10.3k |
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