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
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Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 500–3,290 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$1
Average
$1.7k
Median
$1.3k
High
$36.0k
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| 1 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $1.1k | $1.4k | $1.3k | 87% | 82–244 | $96 – $8.4k |
| 2 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $599 | $9.6k | $27.2k | 284% | 60–465 | $89 – $175k |
| 3 | Prisma Health Richland Hospital COLUMBIA, SC | $1.1k | $1.4k | $696 | 50% | 57–165 | $308 – $3.6k |
| 4 | Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital COLUMBIA, SC | $1.1k | $1.4k | $696 | 50% | 57–165 | $308 – $3.6k |
| 5 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $1.1k | $1.6k | $912 | 58% | 49–490 | $710 – $4.7k |
| 6 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $1.1k | $1.6k | $912 | 58% | 49–490 | $710 – $4.7k |
| 7 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Dallas, TX | $1.6k | $3.2k | $5.1k | 158% | 36–360 | $267 – $22.7k |
| 8 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $1.8k | $2.9k | $2.2k | 75% | 27–81 | $700 – $7.6k |
| 9 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.4k | $1.9k | $1.1k | 61% | 24–240 | $670 – $4.6k |
| 10 | Piedmont Augusta Augusta, GA | $1.6k | $2.7k | $3.0k | 113% | 18–180 | $407 – $15.6k |
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