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
HC ESSENTIAL LEVEL ITE
Low
$0
Average
$1.0k
Median
$521
High
$3.7k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denver Health and Hospital Authority Denver, CO | $580 | $580 | — | — | 7–70 | $209 – $2.0k |
| 2 | Bluffton Health System LLC Bluffton, IN | $364 | $384 | $157 | 41% | — | $192 – $2.1k |
| 3 | Dukes Health System LLC Peru, IN | $367 | $463 | $210 | 45% | — | $157 – $3.7k |
| 4 | La Porte Hospital Company LLC La Porte, IN | $416 | $437 | $157 | 36% | — | $260 – $2.3k |
| 5 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $1.9k |
| 6 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $4.1k |
| 7 | The Union Hospital Association Dover, OH | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $2.7k |
| 8 | Akron General Medical Center Akron, OH | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $4.1k |
| 9 | Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital Canton, OH | $1 | $1 | — | — | — | $1 – $2.7k |
| 10 | Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE | $3.0k | $3.7k | $1.6k | 43% | — | $763 – $7.9k |
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