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 US Guided Needle Aspiration
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Low
$18
Average
$922
Median
$478
High
$21.3k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 200 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 9.1× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City City, KS | $553 | $517 | $90 | 17% | 80–224 | $246 – $553 |
| 2 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $553 | $553 | — | — | 69 | $553 – $553 |
| 3 | Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, IN | $13.1k | $13.1k | — | — | 47–191 | $13.1k – $13.1k |
| 4 | Saint Luke’s East Hospital Summit, MO | $514 | $483 | $78 | 16% | 40–400 | $246 – $514 |
| 5 | Saint Luke’s North Hospital Smithville, MO | $514 | $483 | $78 | 16% | 33–330 | $246 – $514 |
| 6 | Saint Luke’s North Hospital City, KS | $514 | $483 | $78 | 16% | 33–330 | $246 – $514 |
| 7 | Saint Luke’s South Hospital, Inc Overland Park, KS | $514 | $483 | $78 | 16% | 30–300 | $246 – $514 |
| 8 | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital At Stanford PALO ALTO, CA | $28.5k | $21.3k | $9.8k | 46% | 19–190 | $8k – $28.5k |
| 9 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $514 | $514 | — | — | 18 | $514 – $514 |
| 10 | Christian Hospital St. Louis, MO | $514 | $514 | — | — | 11 | $514 – $514 |
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