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
NM CSF SHUNT PATENCY EVALUATION
Low
$0
Average
$5.0k
Median
$656
High
$1328.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $285 | $299 | $30 | 10% | — | $280 – $385 |
| 2 | Mayo Regional Hospital Dover Foxcroft, ME | $29 | $29 | $0 | 0% | — | $29 – $29 |
| 3 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $1.2k | $1.2k | $749 | 63% | — | $448 – $1.9k |
| 4 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $531 | $748 | $286 | 38% | — | $504 – $1.3k |
| 5 | Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital HurstEulessBedford Bedford, TX | $574 | $648 | $162 | 25% | — | $546 – $1.0k |
| 6 | Baptist Medical Center of the Beaches, INC Beach, FL | $674 | $16.7k | $18.7k | 112% | — | $562 – $40.0k |
| 7 | St. Luke's Community Health Services The Woodlands, TX | $566 | $679 | $266 | 39% | — | $388 – $1.8k |
| 8 | Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls, SD | $554 | $550 | $15 | 3% | — | $511 – $565 |
| 9 | St Francis Hospital Colorado Springs, CO | $1.3k | $1.4k | $391 | 28% | — | $995 – $2.0k |
| 10 | The Queens Medical Center Ewa Beach, HI | $258 | $258 | — | — | — | $258 – $258 |
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