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
Sterile saline or water
Low
$0
Average
$18
Median
$2
High
$455
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $0 | $0 | $0 | 35% | — | $0 – $1 |
| 2 | Mayo Regional Hospital Dover Foxcroft, ME | $0 | $1 | $1 | 124% | — | $0 – $2 |
| 3 | Hoopeston Community Memorial Hospital Hoopeston, IL | $2 | $2 | — | — | — | $2 – $2 |
| 4 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $0 | $0 | $0 | 300% | — | $0 – $0 |
| 5 | Kadlec Regional Medical Center Richland, WA | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $1 |
| 6 | William Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe, MI | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $0 |
| 7 | Westfield Memorial Hospital Inc WESTFIELD, NY | $1 | $1 | $0 | 34% | — | $0 – $1 |
| 8 | Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls, SD | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $1 |
| 9 | Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital Charlevoix, MI | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $1 |
| 10 | Dignity Health Carmichael, CA | $2 | $1 | $1 | 50% | — | $0 – $2 |
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