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
99221 INITIAL HOSPITAL CARE
Low
$43
Average
$2.6k
Median
$1.7k
High
$17.5k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 17 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 21.0× 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 | Dukes Health System LLC Peru, IN | $45 | $43 | $3 | 7% | — | $36 – $229 |
| 2 | MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt, IA | $2.7k | $2.1k | $825 | 39% | — | $928 – $2.7k |
| 3 | MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center Aledo, IL | $3.0k | $3.0k | — | — | — | $3.0k – $3.0k |
| 4 | St. Vincent Regional Medical Center Santa Fe, NM | $914 | $914 | — | — | — | $552 – $914 |
| 5 | Children's National Rehabilitation and Specialized Care Washington, DC | $152 | $152 | — | — | — | $93 – $254 |
| 6 | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Chicago, IL | $2.7k | $2.4k | $1.1k | 48% | — | $151 – $3.7k |
| 7 | Erie County Medical Center Corporation Buffalo, NY | $1.9k | $1.7k | $719 | 42% | — | $73 – $3.6k |
| 8 | Proctor Community Hospital Peoria, IL | $2.7k | $2.7k | — | — | — | $33 – $2.7k |
| 9 | Hoopeston Community Memorial Hospital Hoopeston, IL | $4.0k | $4.0k | — | — | — | $24 – $4.0k |
| 10 | Boston Medical Center Boston, MA | $513 | $627 | $256 | 41% | — | $36 – $2.7k |
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