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
Food thickener oral
Low
$0
Average
$7
Median
$1
High
$624
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Showing only prices reported under the fee schedule methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 342 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 11.1× 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 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1 | $63 | $171 | 272% | — | $1 – $610 |
| 2 | Mayo Regional Hospital Dover Foxcroft, ME | $0 | $0 | $0 | 63% | — | $0 – $0 |
| 3 | Hoopeston Community Memorial Hospital Hoopeston, IL | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $0 |
| 4 | Newark-Wayne Community Hospital Newark, NY | $1 | $1 | $0 | 12% | — | $1 – $1 |
| 5 | William Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe, MI | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $1 |
| 6 | Westfield Memorial Hospital Inc WESTFIELD, NY | $1 | $1 | $0 | 32% | — | $0 – $1 |
| 7 | Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls, SD | $1 | $1 | $0 | 35% | — | $1 – $1 |
| 8 | Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital Charlevoix, MI | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $1 |
| 9 | Gundersen Luthern Medical Center Inc La Crosse, WI | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $1 |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1 | $70 | $183 | 260% | — | $1 – $610 |
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