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
Craniotomy for trauma [Major Severity]
Based on 135–639 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1.5k
Average
$7.5k
Median
$6.3k
High
$23.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Gila Regional Medical Center Silver County, NM | $3.1k | $4.5k | $3.6k | 79% | 82–109 | $1.4k – $11.2k |
| 2 | Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Boston, MA | $11.4k | $10.1k | $4.0k | 39% | 5–50 | $3.3k – $23.0k |
| 3 | Salem Hospital Salem, MA | $6.5k | $8.0k | $3.4k | 42% | 5–50 | $3.3k – $23.0k |
| 4 | Mercy Health Anderson Hospital Llc Cincinnati, OH | $3.1k | $3.1k | $410 | 13% | 4–40 | $2.7k – $3.7k |
| 5 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock Rock, AR | $8.0k | $8.5k | $2.1k | 25% | 4–40 | $6.3k – $11.7k |
| 6 | Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital Llc Fairfield, OH | $5.3k | $4.4k | $1.3k | 28% | 3–30 | $2.7k – $5.6k |
| 7 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $8.9k | $11.4k | $3.9k | 34% | 3–30 | $3.3k – $26.3k |
| 8 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $8.7k | $9.9k | $4.5k | 45% | 3–30 | $4.8k – $24.9k |
| 9 | Melrosewakefield Healthcare Melrose, MA | $7.3k | $8.3k | $2.7k | 33% | 3–30 | $4.7k – $13.1k |
| 10 | Sweetwater Hospital Association Sweetwater, TN | $3.2k | $2.7k | $877 | 32% | 3–30 | $1.5k – $6.5k |
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