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
INITIAL HOSPITAL CARE PER DAY
Low
$0
Average
$685
Median
$121
High
$25k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Charles, LA | $75 | $65 | $30 | 46% | 63–90 | $15 – $163 |
| 2 | Buchanan County Health Center Independence, IA | $129 | $129 | — | — | 26–35 | $129 – $129 |
| 3 | Samaritan Medical Center Watertown, NY | $65 | $51 | $29 | 58% | 18–180 | $10 – $272 |
| 4 | Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, Inc. St. Johnsbury, VT | $69 | $72 | $7 | 9% | 14–41 | $60 – $182 |
| 5 | Benefis Community Hospitals, Inc Choteau, MT | $0 | $0 | — | — | 8–80 | $0 – $0 |
| 6 | Benefis Teton Medical Center Choteau, MT | $0 | $0 | — | — | 2–20 | $0 – $0 |
| 7 | Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital Tacoma, WA | $141 | $141 | $32 | 23% | 2–20 | $109 – $173 |
| 8 | Good Samaritan Hospital Puyallup, WA | $109 | $109 | — | — | 1–10 | $109 – $109 |
| 9 | Guthrie Cortland Medical Center Cortland, NY | $236 | $213 | $59 | 28% | 1–10 | $35 – $236 |
| 10 | Boone Memorial Hospital Madison, WV | $85 | $86 | $1 | 1% | 1–10 | $43 – $136 |
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