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
EXTERNAL RECHARGER
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Low
$73
Average
$2.1k
Median
$2.1k
High
$5.4k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 19 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 12.2× 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 | ||||||
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| 1 | Metro Knoxville HMA LLC Powell, TN | $2.1k | $2.1k | $17 | 1% | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 2 | Metro Knoxville HMA LLC Knoxville, TN | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 3 | Affinity Hospital LLC Birmingham, AL | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 4 | East Georgia Regional Medical Center LLC Statesboro, GA | $1.5k | $1.5k | $592 | 40% | — | $900 – $2.1k |
| 5 | Banner Thunderbird Medical Center Glendale, AZ | $73 | $73 | — | — | — | $73 – $73 |
| 6 | UMass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital, Inc. Southbridge, MA | $3.2k | $3.2k | $2.5k | 79% | — | $681 – $5.8k |
| 7 | UPMC Muncy Muncy, PA | $2.3k | $2.3k | $54 | 2% | — | $2.2k – $2.3k |
| 8 | Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center LLC Poplar Bluff, MO | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 9 | Arthur G James Cancer Hospital And Research Institute Columbus, OH | $5.4k | $5.4k | $434 | 8% | — | $4.3k – $5.8k |
| 10 | UMass Memorial Medical Center Worcester, MA | $672 | $672 | — | — | — | $672 – $672 |
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