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
HC PUNCTURE SPINAL LUMBAR DX
Low
$58
Average
$2.1k
Median
$989
High
$842.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $1.4k | $1.2k | $632 | 51% | 604–1,117 | $316 – $17.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $1.8k | $2.6k | $2.2k | 84% | 574 | $196 – $7.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $1.7k | $4.4k | $5.7k | 129% | 388–532 | $179 – $22.8k |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $412 | $674 | $525 | 78% | 290–920 | $85 – $1.7k |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $1.8k | $1.7k | $615 | 36% | 264–462 | $384 – $2.4k |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $239 | $318 | $164 | 52% | 249–501 | $118 – $650 |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $226 | $301 | $156 | 52% | 249–501 | $112 – $616 |
| 8 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $899 | $856 | $80 | 9% | 239–302 | $711 – $934 |
| 9 | Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH | $1.1k | $914 | $361 | 39% | 103–130 | $235 – $1.2k |
| 10 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $876 | $918 | $369 | 40% | 89–107 | $323 – $1.5k |
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