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
Signs & symptoms of musculoskeletal system & connective tissue without major complications
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Low
$352
Average
$3.1k
Median
$2.7k
High
$9.9k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 35 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 3.3× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Preferred Hospital Leasing Shamrock, Inc. Shamrock, TX | $352 | $352 | $150 | 43% | 40 | $202 – $501 |
| 2 | Scotland Memorial Hospital Inc. Laurinburg, NC | $9.9k | $9.9k | — | — | 1–10 | $9.9k – $9.9k |
| 3 | SoutheastHEALTH Center of Stoddard County LLC dba Mercy Hospital Stoddard Dexter, MO | $1.2k | $1.1k | $297 | 26% | — | $672 – $1.6k |
| 4 | Mercy Hospital South Louis, MO | $3.1k | $2.2k | $1.2k | 56% | — | $672 – $3.4k |
| 5 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $3.3k | $3.2k | $71 | 2% | — | $3.1k – $3.3k |
| 6 | Mercy Hospital Aurora Aurora, MO | $2.4k | $2.5k | $384 | 15% | — | $2.4k – $3.6k |
| 7 | FRANCISCAN ALLIANCE, INC. dba FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS, IN | $6.0k | $6.0k | $45 | 1% | — | $5.9k – $6.0k |
| 8 | Mercy Hospital Jefferson Festus, MO | $3.9k | $2.6k | $1.6k | 60% | — | $672 – $4.1k |
| 9 | Mercy St. Francis Hospital View, MO | $6.3k | $5.4k | $2.1k | 40% | — | $855 – $10.3k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Carthage Carthage, MO | $1.7k | $2.5k | $1.3k | 51% | — | $1.5k – $5.7k |
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