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Original text from hospital filings
78608 NUCLEAR MEDICINE STUDY OF BRAIN WITH METABOLIC EVALUATION
Low
$0
Average
$3.3k
Median
$2.4k
High
$55.6k
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| 1 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $2.8k | $2.4k | $928 | 39% | 203–239 | $1.3k – $3.8k |
| 2 | Newton Wellesley Hospital Newton, MA | $1.7k | $1.7k | $16 | 1% | 119–164 | $1.7k – $1.7k |
| 3 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $1.7k | $1.7k | $70 | 4% | 81–135 | $1.5k – $1.7k |
| 4 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.7k | $1.7k | $15 | 1% | 47–74 | $1.7k – $1.7k |
| 5 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center GRENADA, MS | $1.3k | $2.1k | $966 | 46% | 47–74 | $1.2k – $3.8k |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $1.4k | $1.4k | $7 | 0% | 15–33 | $1.4k – $1.4k |
| 7 | Stony Brook University Hospital Stony Brook, NY | $1.8k | $1.9k | $543 | 29% | 9–90 | $722 – $3.6k |
| 8 | Wentworth Douglass Hospital Dover, NH | $1.5k | $1.9k | $936 | 49% | 7–70 | $1.5k – $4.2k |
| 9 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $1.4k | $1.3k | $882 | 69% | 6–60 | $0 – $2.9k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Smith, AR | $1.4k | $1.4k | $199 | 14% | 6–60 | $1.4k – $2.2k |
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