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
Respiratory infections & inflammations without complications
Based on 65–551 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1.8k
Average
$24.1k
Median
$11.2k
High
$150.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gila Regional Medical Center Silver County, NM | $2.7k | $2.3k | $1.3k | 55% | 13–31 | $615 – $3.7k |
| 2 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $122.3k | $123.1k | $61.6k | 50% | 10–100 | $37.6k – $232.4k |
| 3 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $70.7k | $81.4k | $36.6k | 45% | 10–100 | $40.2k – $179.7k |
| 4 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $138.0k | $133.6k | $56.8k | 43% | 7–70 | $37.6k – $232.4k |
| 5 | Salem Hospital Salem, MA | $93.1k | $86.1k | $31.2k | 36% | 5–50 | $42.4k – $168.3k |
| 6 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock Rock, AR | $7.1k | $7.6k | $1.8k | 24% | 4–40 | $5.7k – $10.5k |
| 7 | Sweetwater Hospital Association Sweetwater, TN | $3.2k | $3.2k | $1.6k | 49% | 3–30 | $1.2k – $10.5k |
| 8 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $14.4k | $13.1k | $5.3k | 40% | 2–20 | $6.1k – $19.2k |
| 9 | Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA | $62.9k | $68.3k | $36.7k | 54% | 2–20 | $8.6k – $159.4k |
| 10 | Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital Llc Fairfield, OH | $45.1k | $45.6k | $964 | 2% | 1–10 | $44.5k – $47.3k |
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