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
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Based on 88–880 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$22
Average
$1.4k
Median
$675
High
$241.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $14.9k | $17.4k | $9.0k | 52% | 39–390 | $4.2k – $32.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $6.0k | $10.4k | $7.1k | 69% | 28–280 | $2.9k – $22.3k |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $395 | $1.0k | $1.1k | 108% | 4–40 | $70 – $4.1k |
| 4 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $318 | $723 | $889 | 123% | 4–40 | $91 – $4.4k |
| 5 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $642 | $730 | $681 | 93% | 4–40 | $140 – $4.3k |
| 6 | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA | $355 | $355 | — | — | 3–30 | $355 – $355 |
| 7 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $291 | $291 | $245 | 84% | 2–20 | $28 – $1.4k |
| 8 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $196 | $399 | $715 | 179% | 1–10 | $100 – $4.1k |
| 9 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $230 | $302 | $282 | 93% | 1–10 | $94 – $1.7k |
| 10 | University of Colorado Hospital Authority Aurora, CO | $439 | $753 | $1.1k | 145% | 1–10 | $204 – $6.3k |
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