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
Drugs
Low
$34
Average
$570
Median
$37
High
$2.7k
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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. 5 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 48.5× 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 | University Hospitals Health System Cleveland, OH | $76 | $76 | — | — | — | $76 – $76 |
| 2 | Melrosewakefield Healthcare Melrose, MA | $40 | $37 | $10 | 26% | — | $25 – $78 |
| 3 | Lowell General Hospital Lowell, MA | $34 | $34 | $9 | 27% | — | $25 – $72 |
| 4 | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia, PA | $1.4k | $2.7k | $2.5k | 93% | — | $214 – $8.8k |
| 5 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $35 | $34 | $8 | 24% | — | $19 – $72 |
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