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 Absorp Pretreat Ab ID Ea
Based on 162–720 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$10
Average
$129
Median
$94
High
$2.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $129 | $115 | $57 | 50% | 44–89 | $1 – $194 |
| 2 | The Children's Hospital of Alabama Birmingham, AL | $220 | $200 | $57 | 29% | 22 | $51 – $270 |
| 3 | The Children's Hospital of Alabama Birmingham, AL | $225 | $225 | $4 | 2% | 22 | $221 – $230 |
| 4 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $56 | $121 | $193 | 159% | 17 | $23 – $870 |
| 5 | Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, MO | $93 | $90 | $40 | 44% | 5–50 | $1 – $147 |
| 6 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $60 | $64 | $23 | 35% | 5–50 | $26 – $133 |
| 7 | Port City Operating Company, Llc Stockton, CA | $76 | $74 | $41 | 55% | 5–50 | $18 – $207 |
| 8 | Dignity Health Carmichael, CA | $68 | $63 | $25 | 40% | 3–30 | $9 – $125 |
| 9 | Tanner Medical Center - Villa Rica Villa Rica, GA | $60 | $58 | $13 | 22% | 3–30 | $26 – $71 |
| 10 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $122 | $129 | $63 | 49% | 2–20 | $48 – $245 |
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