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
facility
Based on 8,197–8,872 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$4
Average
$2.9k
Median
$33
High
$47.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eskenazi Health Indianapolis, IN | $5.6k | $5.6k | — | — | 3,000 | $18 – $10.1k |
| 2 | Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, Inc. St. Johnsbury, VT | $10.3k | $8.3k | $3.2k | 38% | 2,400 | $4.4k – $11.7k |
| 3 | West Virginia Health Care Cooperative Inc. Summersville, WV | $28 | $1.7k | $2.3k | 139% | 900 | $28 – $5.0k |
| 4 | Community Health Association Ripley, WV | $28 | $1.6k | $2.2k | 139% | 600 | $28 – $4.6k |
| 5 | NYU Langone New York, NY | $81 | $86 | $45 | 53% | 222–267 | $18 – $4.8k |
| 6 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $24 | $4.6k | $5.7k | 124% | 154 | $17 – $14.5k |
| 7 | Capital Health System Inc Pennington, NJ | $19 | $69 | $154 | 225% | 120 | $4 – $794 |
| 8 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $19.6k | $18.9k | $4.4k | 24% | 110 | $10 – $25.0k |
| 9 | NYU Langone New York, NY | $81 | $471 | $1.1k | 230% | 86–122 | $18 – $4.8k |
| 10 | State Of Mississippi-university Of Mississippi Medical Center JACKSON, MS | $31 | $5.4k | $9.3k | 173% | 63–108 | $15 – $25.0k |
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