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 Spinal Tap/Lumbar Puncture
Based on 7,427–32,897 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$25
Average
$1.5k
Median
$1.0k
High
$285.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $1.7k | $2.4k | $2.2k | 90% | 728 | $75 – $7.8k |
| 2 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $1.4k | $1.2k | $645 | 53% | 705–1,317 | $52 – $17.5k |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $214 | $451 | $527 | 117% | 493–1,591 | $41 – $2.9k |
| 4 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.7k | $4.4k | $5.7k | 129% | 391–562 | $179 – $22.8k |
| 5 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $881 | $853 | $288 | 34% | 299–380 | $68 – $1.6k |
| 6 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $1.8k | $1.7k | $627 | 37% | 268–502 | $80 – $2.4k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $239 | $395 | $510 | 129% | 259–601 | $58 – $4.1k |
| 8 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $274 | $410 | $405 | 99% | 249–501 | $112 – $3.2k |
| 9 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $377 | $799 | $855 | 107% | 221–896 | $8 – $5.2k |
| 10 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $1.6k | $2.7k | $3.5k | 133% | 146–452 | $250 – $16.9k |
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