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
SEPTIC ARTHRITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC
Based on 3–30 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$484
Average
$11.7k
Median
$7.9k
High
$27.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH MICHIGAN CITY CITY, IN | $13.1k | $11.3k | $6.7k | 59% | 1–10 | $3.4k – $21.9k |
| 2 | Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock Rock, AR | $6.9k | $6.9k | — | — | 1–10 | $6.9k – $6.9k |
| 3 | Gila Regional Medical Center Silver County, NM | $484 | $484 | — | — | 1–10 | $484 – $484 |
| 4 | Aiken Regional Medical Centers Washington, DC | $6.2k | $6.3k | $111 | 2% | — | $6.1k – $6.4k |
| 5 | The University of Tennessee Medical Center Knoxville, TN | $2.4k | $2.4k | $618 | 26% | — | $1.8k – $3k |
| 6 | Yale New Haven Hospital Haven, CT | $27.9k | $24.8k | $9.9k | 40% | — | $10.2k – $42.6k |
| 7 | Morristown Medical Center Morristown, NJ | $25.9k | $23.3k | $5.6k | 24% | — | $7.7k – $25.9k |
| 8 | CentraState Medical Center Freehold Township, NJ | $27.9k | $27.4k | $812 | 3% | — | $25.6k – $27.9k |
| 9 | Chilton Medical Center Pompton Plains, NJ | $23.3k | $22.7k | $798 | 4% | — | $21.4k – $23.3k |
| 10 | Newton Medical Center Newton, NJ | $23.3k | $21.1k | $4.4k | 21% | — | $8.7k – $23.3k |
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