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 EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT VISIT LEVEL 1 - ED
Low
$1
Average
$735
Median
$491
High
$19.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | The William W Backus Hospital NORWICH, CT | $658 | $620 | $177 | 29% | 247–265 | $34 – $884 |
| 2 | Mount Carmel St Ann's Westerville, OH | $423 | $434 | $89 | 20% | 220–292 | $71 – $632 |
| 3 | Hartford Hospital HARTFORD, CT | $606 | $599 | $83 | 14% | 211–238 | $34 – $709 |
| 4 | Spencer Municipal Hospital Spencer, IA | $83 | $85 | $8 | 10% | 204–249 | $75 – $290 |
| 5 | Svmc Holdings Inc D/b/a St Vincent�s Medical Center BRIDGEPORT, CT | $500 | $500 | $152 | 30% | 189–225 | $34 – $765 |
| 6 | Hospital Of Central Connecticut At New Britain D/b/a The Hospital Of Central Connecticut NEW BRITAIN, CT | $659 | $663 | $107 | 16% | 160–187 | $34 – $832 |
| 7 | The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital TORRINGTON, CT | $388 | $459 | $171 | 37% | 132–150 | $34 – $750 |
| 8 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $491 | $491 | — | — | 104 | $69 – $491 |
| 9 | Windham Community Memorial Hospital Inc WILLIMANTIC, CT | $715 | $620 | $170 | 27% | 94–130 | $34 – $773 |
| 10 | Midstate Medical Center MERIDEN, CT | $694 | $656 | $103 | 16% | 84–111 | $34 – $763 |
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