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
PR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISIT MAY NOT REQ PHYS/QHP
Based on 134,944–199,357 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$6
Average
$455
Median
$213
High
$332.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $337 | $314 | $174 | 55% | 21,886–22,210 | $15 – $650 |
| 2 | Holy Cross Hospital-Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD | $135 | $135 | $15 | 11% | 6,401–6,653 | $103 – $334 |
| 3 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $151 | $204 | $144 | 71% | 4,240–4,258 | $69 – $491 |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $291 | $280 | $186 | 66% | 3,120 | $39 – $571 |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $441 | $573 | $420 | 73% | 2,788 | $91 – $1.4k |
| 6 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Lakewood, CO | $352 | $393 | $313 | 80% | 2,528–2,672 | $11 – $1.0k |
| 7 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $265 | $274 | $128 | 47% | 2,492 | $68 – $571 |
| 8 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $417 | $398 | $158 | 40% | 2,312–2,420 | $71 – $571 |
| 9 | Bexar County Hospital District San Antonio, TX | $141 | $205 | $175 | 85% | 2,259 | $51 – $1.1k |
| 10 | Catholic Health Initiatives Colorado Colorado Springs, CO | $214 | $317 | $313 | 99% | 2,242–2,413 | $11 – $1.0k |
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