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 Thyroid Ca/Mets Imag, Wb
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Based on 1,198–7,516 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$41
Average
$1.2k
Median
$966
High
$101.1k
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| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $1.5k | $1.4k | $623 | 46% | 142–205 | $529 – $2.2k |
| 2 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $290 | $418 | $393 | 94% | 90 | $32 – $1.7k |
| 3 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Lexington, KY | $2.4k | $3.2k | $2.4k | 76% | 82–118 | $389 – $8.8k |
| 4 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $1.3k | $1.6k | $1.0k | 67% | 35–107 | $256 – $3.4k |
| 5 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $506 | $521 | $401 | 77% | 34–160 | $27 – $1.9k |
| 6 | Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD | $978 | $1.2k | $488 | 41% | 28–64 | $337 – $2.1k |
| 7 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $930 | $1.2k | $560 | 47% | 24–114 | $626 – $2.0k |
| 8 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $549 | $543 | $386 | 71% | 22–103 | $29 – $1.5k |
| 9 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $1.7k | $1.4k | $796 | 55% | 22–220 | $189 – $2.5k |
| 10 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $834 | $948 | $368 | 39% | 20–101 | $481 – $1.8k |
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