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 CSF SHUNT EVALUATION
Based on 127–1,171 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$27
Average
$1.2k
Median
$825
High
$456.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $605 | $800 | $408 | 51% | 13–130 | $341 – $1.6k |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $530 | $723 | $365 | 50% | 12–120 | $323 – $1.6k |
| 3 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $621 | $887 | $496 | 56% | 11–110 | $500 – $2.5k |
| 4 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $621 | $887 | $496 | 56% | 11–110 | $500 – $2.5k |
| 5 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $923 | $844 | $294 | 35% | 11 | $422 – $1.3k |
| 6 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $1.6k | $1.3k | $688 | 51% | 10–100 | $429 – $2.5k |
| 7 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $872 | $888 | $277 | 31% | 8–80 | $544 – $2.0k |
| 8 | Baptist Healthcare System Inc Paducah, KY | $1.1k | $1.7k | $1.4k | 84% | 7–70 | $200 – $5.0k |
| 9 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $1.2k | $1.2k | $397 | 33% | 5–50 | $637 – $2.6k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $488 | $540 | $445 | 82% | 4–40 | $18 – $1.9k |
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