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 ALBUMIN, FLUID
Low
$1
Average
$19
Median
$11
High
$4.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $12 | $205 | $302 | 148% | 302–320 | $8 – $683 |
| 2 | St. Peter's Health Helena, MT | $15 | $14 | $6 | 40% | 74–92 | $8 – $22 |
| 3 | Memorial Hospital Of Polk County Livingston, TX | $8 | $34 | $44 | 128% | 69–123 | $7 – $151 |
| 4 | Memorial Health System Of East Texas Lufkin, TX | $12 | $38 | $45 | 119% | 68–104 | $7 – $151 |
| 5 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $9 | $11 | $3 | 32% | 60–96 | $7 – $16 |
| 6 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $16 | $17 | $5 | 31% | 50–131 | $8 – $24 |
| 7 | Memorial Medical Center San Augustine San Augustine, TX | $17 | $40 | $48 | 120% | 41–59 | $7 – $168 |
| 8 | Oneida Health ONEIDA, NY | $5 | $6 | $1 | 21% | 40–400 | $5 – $9 |
| 9 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $12 | $12 | $4 | 32% | 33–222 | $8 – $19 |
| 10 | Dignity Health Gilbert, AZ | $11 | $19 | $15 | 79% | 30–192 | $4 – $70 |
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