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
Vaginal Delivery With O.R. Procedure Except Sterilization And/Or D&C,MODERATE
Based on 278–1,322 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$2.1k
Average
$15.8k
Median
$14.5k
High
$47.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Newton Wellesley Hospital Newton, MA | $11.2k | $11.8k | $3.5k | 30% | 76–166 | $3.5k – $43.4k |
| 2 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $12.9k | $17.4k | $10.9k | 62% | 67–247 | $7.2k – $60.0k |
| 3 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $15.3k | $18.1k | $11.6k | 64% | 34–169 | $7.2k – $63.0k |
| 4 | Salem Hospital Salem, MA | $8.7k | $8.8k | $2.6k | 30% | 28–118 | $3.5k – $21.4k |
| 5 | Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA | $11.7k | $14.3k | $8.1k | 57% | 20–92 | $7.7k – $41.1k |
| 6 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $13.2k | $15.9k | $7.4k | 47% | 12–120 | $7.9k – $39.5k |
| 7 | Columbus Regional Hospital Columbus, IN | $11.5k | $13.4k | $3.5k | 26% | 4–40 | $10.4k – $18.4k |
| 8 | Mercy Health Anderson Hospital Llc Cincinnati, OH | $4.9k | $4.9k | $104 | 2% | 3–30 | $4.8k – $5.1k |
| 9 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock Rock, AR | $13.7k | $19.7k | $8.8k | 45% | 3–30 | $13.2k – $32.2k |
| 10 | Melrosewakefield Healthcare Melrose, MA | $13.1k | $14.6k | $6.5k | 44% | 3–30 | $7.7k – $38.1k |
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