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
81261
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 361–2,206 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$6
Average
$401
Median
$321
High
$6.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NYU Langone New York, NY | $433 | $420 | $211 | 50% | 139–166 | $178 – $2.0k |
| 2 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $981 | $707 | $349 | 49% | 65–470 | $58 – $1.0k |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $362 | $450 | $319 | 71% | 18–180 | $147 – $1.7k |
| 4 | Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD | $863 | $848 | $68 | 8% | 15–150 | $202 – $872 |
| 5 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $980 | $977 | $332 | 34% | 15–150 | $104 – $1.6k |
| 6 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $210 | $226 | $45 | 20% | 14–140 | $129 – $351 |
| 7 | Stony Brook University Hospital Stony Brook, NY | $198 | $468 | $980 | 209% | 10–100 | $36 – $4.3k |
| 8 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $207 | $276 | $104 | 38% | 8–80 | $198 – $448 |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $244 | $222 | $41 | 18% | 8–80 | $135 – $263 |
| 10 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $198 | $350 | $289 | 83% | 6–60 | $10 – $1.1k |
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