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 [Catastrophic Severity]
Based on 154–757 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1.5k
Average
$9.8k
Median
$8.0k
High
$32.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Gila Regional Medical Center Silver County, NM | $1.7k | $1.5k | $414 | 28% | 55–64 | $931 – $1.9k |
| 2 | NYU Langone New York, NY | $23.4k | $21.3k | $9.6k | 45% | 33 | $1.7k – $36.8k |
| 3 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $21.4k | $32.3k | $39.7k | 123% | 10–100 | $3.8k – $146.2k |
| 4 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $19.6k | $17.9k | $12.4k | 69% | 9–90 | $3.8k – $61.6k |
| 5 | Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Boston, MA | $7.2k | $9.2k | $4.5k | 49% | 9–90 | $3.8k – $53.8k |
| 6 | Salem Hospital Salem, MA | $15.5k | $12.8k | $5.1k | 40% | 7–70 | $3.8k – $27.5k |
| 7 | Newton Wellesley Hospital Newton, MA | $11.3k | $11.7k | $5.3k | 45% | 6–60 | $3.8k – $27.5k |
| 8 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock Rock, AR | $7.8k | $8.0k | $1.7k | 22% | 4–40 | $5.9k – $10.6k |
| 9 | Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA | $11.5k | $14.0k | $11.2k | 80% | 4–40 | $4.1k – $43.3k |
| 10 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $9.6k | $14.5k | $12.8k | 89% | 3–30 | $4.2k – $51.8k |
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