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
Low
$1
Average
$1.2k
Median
$718
High
$21.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $527 | $537 | $14 | 3% | 9–90 | $527 – $557 |
| 2 | Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Inc City, OK | $502 | $558 | $140 | 25% | 8–80 | $476 – $1.1k |
| 3 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $591 | $998 | $868 | 87% | 5–50 | $591 – $3.2k |
| 4 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $546 | $612 | $197 | 32% | 4–40 | $417 – $940 |
| 5 | Mercy Hospital Ardmore Inc Ardmore, OK | $549 | $610 | $155 | 25% | 4–40 | $549 – $1.2k |
| 6 | Mercy Health Hackley Campus Muskegon, MI | $568 | $566 | $168 | 30% | 3–30 | $303 – $898 |
| 7 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT CROWN POINT, IN | $1.1k | $1.2k | $607 | 51% | 2–20 | $574 – $1.9k |
| 8 | John Muir Health Walnut Creek, CA | $676 | $699 | $91 | 13% | 2–20 | $609 – $1.2k |
| 9 | Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, SC | $530 | $530 | $3 | 1% | 2–20 | $527 – $534 |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $427 | $427 | — | — | 1–10 | $427 – $427 |
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