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
Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow W/O Matl Cisternography
Based on 58–580 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$33
Average
$1.2k
Median
$962
High
$172.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $290 | $342 | $224 | 65% | 9–90 | $25 – $1.1k |
| 2 | Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Inc City, OK | $538 | $734 | $314 | 43% | 8–80 | $92 – $1.7k |
| 3 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $591 | $940 | $840 | 89% | 6–60 | $163 – $3.2k |
| 4 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $464 | $580 | $510 | 88% | 4–40 | $22 – $2.0k |
| 5 | Mercy Hospital Ardmore Inc Ardmore, OK | $555 | $681 | $270 | 40% | 4–40 | $239 – $3.0k |
| 6 | Mercy Health Hackley Campus Muskegon, MI | $735 | $771 | $161 | 21% | 3–30 | $303 – $1.1k |
| 7 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $468 | $597 | $532 | 89% | 2–20 | $22 – $2.0k |
| 8 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT CROWN POINT, IN | $1.1k | $1.3k | $556 | 44% | 2–20 | $574 – $2.3k |
| 9 | Benefis Hospitals Inc Falls, MT | $490 | $814 | $784 | 96% | 2–20 | $48 – $2.1k |
| 10 | John Muir Health Walnut Creek, CA | $676 | $1.6k | $1.6k | 99% | 2–20 | $169 – $9.5k |
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