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
$1
Average
$28
Median
$20
High
$185
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Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 33 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 39.5× 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 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $1 | $1 | $0 | 24% | — | $1 – $2 |
| 2 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $1 | $1 | $0 | 25% | — | $1 – $2 |
| 3 | Manatee Memorial Hospital Bradenton, FL | $13 | $17 | $11 | 63% | — | $10 – $41 |
| 4 | Valley Health Speciality Hospital Las Vegas, NV | $38 | $46 | $23 | 50% | — | $17 – $81 |
| 5 | Temecula Valley Hospital Temecula, CA | $139 | $160 | $65 | 41% | — | $97 – $347 |
| 6 | Bronson South Haven Hospital South Haven, MI | $1 | $1 | $0 | 30% | — | $1 – $2 |
| 7 | Minden Medical Center MINDEN, LA | $2 | $1 | $1 | 53% | — | $0 – $2 |
| 8 | McAllen Hospitals, LP Edinburg, TX | $18 | $20 | $16 | 78% | — | $6 – $60 |
| 9 | Bronson Battle Creek Hospital Battle Creek, MI | $1 | $1 | $0 | 23% | — | $1 – $2 |
| 10 | Corona Regional Medical Center Corona, CA | $14 | $16 | $7 | 41% | — | $6 – $36 |
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