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 with same-day admission and discharge with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 45 minutes
Low
$51
Average
$2.4k
Median
$956
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. 12 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 12.9× 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 | MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center DeWitt, IA | $2.7k | $2.1k | $825 | 39% | — | $928 – $2.7k |
| 3 | Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, OH | $17.5k | $17.5k | — | — | — | $17.5k – $17.5k |
| 4 | Benefis Teton Medical Center Choteau, MT | $929 | $929 | — | — | — | $929 – $929 |
| 5 | Emerson Hospital Concord, MA | $613 | $613 | — | — | — | $613 – $613 |
| 6 | Munson Healthcare Cadillac Cadillac, MI | $852 | $852 | — | — | — | $852 – $852 |
| 7 | Munson Medical Center Traverse City, MI | $1.1k | $1.1k | $249 | 23% | — | $852 – $1.4k |
| 8 | Dukes Health System LLC Peru, IN | $52 | $51 | $4 | 8% | — | $46 – $56 |
| 9 | Erie County Medical Center Corporation Buffalo, NY | $182 | $182 | — | — | — | $182 – $182 |
| 10 | Lakewood Ranch Lakewood Ranch, FL | $1.0k | $982 | $188 | 19% | — | $735 – $1.2k |
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