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 CHEMOTHER CNS W/LUMBAR PUNCTURE
Based on 6,386–13,280 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$65
Average
$660
Median
$500
High
$17.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $322 | $423 | $214 | 51% | 568–676 | $172 – $876 |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $321 | $392 | $191 | 49% | 555–645 | $163 – $830 |
| 3 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $7.7k | $7.4k | $2.2k | 30% | 457–511 | $93 – $10.6k |
| 4 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $2.0k | $2.1k | $489 | 24% | 424–460 | $1.3k – $3.0k |
| 5 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $261 | $299 | $199 | 67% | 219–246 | $70 – $922 |
| 6 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $261 | $299 | $199 | 67% | 219–246 | $70 – $922 |
| 7 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $961 | $888 | $280 | 31% | 201–255 | $331 – $1.3k |
| 8 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $198 | $3.3k | $21.2k | 645% | 192–300 | $52 – $187.2k |
| 9 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $1.4k | $1.4k | $1.3k | 88% | 192–210 | $128 – $6.6k |
| 10 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $748 | $732 | $435 | 59% | 179–224 | $71 – $1.4k |
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