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.
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LOCAL EXCISION AND REMOVAL OF INTERNAL FIXATION DEVICES EXCEPT HIP AND FEMUR WITH CC
Based on 15–150 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$2.4k
Average
$26.6k
Median
$20.6k
High
$65.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baptist Health Medical Center - North Little Rock Rock, AR | $14.0k | $15.1k | $2.0k | 13% | 3–30 | $13.4k – $17.9k |
| 2 | Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Dallas, TX | $36.0k | $34.0k | $7.6k | 22% | 2–20 | $16.0k – $80.2k |
| 3 | Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Mansfield, TX | $34.8k | $33.0k | $7.3k | 22% | 2–20 | $15.9k – $80.2k |
| 4 | Mclaren Northern Michigan PETOSKEY, MI | $16.0k | $19.4k | $6.5k | 34% | 1–10 | $12.5k – $36.7k |
| 5 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $36.0k | $35.6k | $9.2k | 26% | 1–10 | $15.2k – $45.8k |
| 6 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH MICHIGAN CITY CITY, IN | $27.1k | $23.5k | $13.6k | 58% | 1–10 | $7.9k – $45.1k |
| 7 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock Rock, AR | $14.2k | $14.2k | — | — | 1–10 | $14.2k – $14.2k |
| 8 | Baptist Health - Fort Smith Smith, AR | $14.2k | $14.2k | — | — | 1–10 | $14.2k – $14.2k |
| 9 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Conway Conway, AR | $14.0k | $14.0k | — | — | 1–10 | $14.0k – $14.0k |
| 10 | Methodist Hospitals of Dallas Richardson, TX | $32.7k | $30.9k | $6.8k | 22% | 1–10 | $14.9k – $80.2k |
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