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
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Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Low
$128
Average
$3.9k
Median
$602
High
$17.5k
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Reflects a negotiated per diem rate paid per day of care.
Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 5 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 63.1× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manatee Memorial Hospital Bradenton, FL | $673 | $602 | $88 | 15% | — | $474 – $673 |
| 2 | Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, OH | $17.5k | $17.5k | — | — | — | $17.5k – $17.5k |
| 3 | Orange County Global Medical Center Santa Ana, CA | $240 | $240 | — | — | — | $240 – $240 |
| 4 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $98 | $128 | $42 | 33% | — | $98 – $187 |
| 5 | Lakewood Ranch Lakewood Ranch, FL | $1.0k | $982 | $188 | 19% | — | $735 – $1.2k |
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