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
ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH CC
Based on 403–1,600 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$2.1k
Average
$13.2k
Median
$10.8k
High
$41.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $18.6k | $17.2k | $9.0k | 52% | 85–121 | $7.7k – $50.3k |
| 2 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH LAFAYETTE LAFAYETTE, IN | $19.7k | $21.6k | $6.2k | 29% | 57–66 | $8.4k – $30.5k |
| 3 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH CROWN POINT CROWN POINT, IN | $15.4k | $14.2k | $5.0k | 35% | 42–51 | $7.2k – $51.4k |
| 4 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH MICHIGAN CITY CITY, IN | $14.6k | $19.6k | $24.2k | 123% | 38–47 | $8.0k – $133.6k |
| 5 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $26.1k | $27.7k | $13.3k | 48% | 29–191 | $7.1k – $98.4k |
| 6 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $18.1k | $25.5k | $12.8k | 50% | 25–151 | $7.1k – $98.4k |
| 7 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH DYER DYER, IN | $9.4k | $10.9k | $5.2k | 48% | 24–42 | $4.8k – $20.2k |
| 8 | Baptist Health - Fort Smith Smith, AR | $9.3k | $9.2k | $2.2k | 24% | 17–71 | $6.8k – $12.3k |
| 9 | Newton Wellesley Hospital Newton, MA | $21.3k | $22.0k | $5.4k | 25% | 7–70 | $7.1k – $86.0k |
| 10 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock Rock, AR | $9.4k | $15.8k | $16.1k | 102% | 7–70 | $7.0k – $54.9k |
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