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=XR SPINE ENTIRE THOR/LUMB 1 VIEW
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 9,396–23,499 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$11
Average
$649
Median
$156
High
$950.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $181 | $180 | $57 | 32% | 1,397–1,613 | $18 – $283 |
| 2 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $225 | $204 | $81 | 40% | 600–636 | $58 – $285 |
| 3 | Nemours Children's Hospital Wilmington, DE | $210 | $205 | $82 | 40% | 580–679 | $16 – $382 |
| 4 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Elizabethtown, KY | $400 | $895 | $1.2k | 133% | 536–608 | $36 – $4.8k |
| 5 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $104 | $138 | $70 | 50% | 447–537 | $62 – $283 |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $95 | $124 | $63 | 51% | 446–527 | $59 – $267 |
| 7 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $401 | $920 | $1.2k | 130% | 371–425 | $32 – $4.8k |
| 8 | St Louis Childrens Hospital Saint Louis, MO | $228 | $203 | $59 | 29% | 318–336 | $86 – $274 |
| 9 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $41 | $220 | $240 | 109% | 302–572 | $7 – $616 |
| 10 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Corbin, KY | $411 | $1.1k | $1.3k | 113% | 277–313 | $32 – $4.8k |
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