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
AFTER CATARACT LASER SURGERY
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Low
$1
Average
$2.6k
Median
$2.1k
High
$19.7k
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| 1 | St Johns Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Springfield, IL | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | 51 | $2.3k – $2.3k |
| 2 | St Vincent Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Green Bay, WI | $1.2k | $1.2k | — | — | 3–30 | $1.2k – $1.2k |
| 3 | Avera Marshall Hospital Marshall, MN | $233 | $280 | $68 | 24% | 3–30 | $229 – $377 |
| 4 | Avera Queen of Peace Mitchell, SD | $173 | $173 | $71 | 41% | 2–20 | $102 – $244 |
| 5 | Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, CA | $6.9k | $6.4k | $809 | 13% | 1–10 | $5.2k – $7.0k |
| 6 | Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix, AZ | $4.1k | $4.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $4.1k – $4.1k |
| 7 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $3.9k | $3.8k | $1.1k | 29% | — | $2.0k – $5.1k |
| 8 | Northern Itasca Hospital District Bigfork, MN | $1.5k | $1.5k | — | — | — | $1.5k – $1.5k |
| 9 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $335 | $372 | $61 | 16% | — | $329 – $525 |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $2.2k | $2.0k | $615 | 31% | — | $770 – $2.8k |
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