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 23,087–59,006 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$23
Average
$438
Median
$313
High
$100.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $863 | $1.4k | $1.2k | 89% | 708–726 | $166 – $4.1k |
| 2 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $74 | $82 | $76 | 93% | 605–893 | $12 – $1.1k |
| 3 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $207 | $205 | $49 | 24% | 531–612 | $136 – $409 |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $243 | $314 | $164 | 52% | 513–585 | $148 – $671 |
| 5 | Springhill Memorial Hospital Mobile, AL | $163 | $150 | $84 | 56% | 487–676 | $6 – $399 |
| 6 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $178 | $259 | $176 | 68% | 473–527 | $116 – $576 |
| 7 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $374 | $428 | $263 | 62% | 465–546 | $140 – $878 |
| 8 | Dignity Health Phoenix, AZ | $372 | $386 | $216 | 56% | 464–554 | $102 – $870 |
| 9 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Albany, IN | $775 | $1.1k | $789 | 72% | 445–454 | $48 – $3.1k |
| 10 | Dignity Community Care Chandler, AZ | $255 | $393 | $369 | 94% | 423–441 | $91 – $1.4k |
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