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
CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR (CAR) T-CELL AND OTHER IMMUNOTHERAPIES
Based on 802–4,132 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$432.3k
Median
$411.4k
High
$2363.7k
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| 1 | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania D/B/A The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | $373.1k | $792.9k | $907.2k | 114% | 135–306 | $545 – $4171.6k |
| 2 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $503.0k | $492.4k | $85.4k | 17% | 77–158 | $394.1k – $722.3k |
| 3 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Atlanta, GA | $6.3k | $332.9k | $662.0k | 199% | 62–188 | $1.1k – $2860.1k |
| 4 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $375.1k | $792.5k | $753.3k | 95% | 54–99 | $8.5k – $2273.6k |
| 5 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $394.3k | $423.7k | $79.6k | 19% | 51–114 | $386.4k – $633.7k |
| 6 | The University of Chicago Medical Center Chicago, IL | $605.1k | $1023.4k | $948.0k | 93% | 40–112 | $411.3k – $4308.2k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $97.0k | $179.0k | $308.6k | 172% | 32–41 | $80.7k – $2375.3k |
| 8 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $716.9k | $872.9k | $466.9k | 53% | 28–172 | $219.7k – $1764.6k |
| 9 | The Methodist Hospital Houston, TX | $388.2k | $503.0k | $279.0k | 55% | 23–113 | $4.0k – $1764.4k |
| 10 | Ucsf Medical Center San Francisco, CA | $659.4k | $671.0k | $331.8k | 49% | 22–220 | $78.6k – $1810.6k |
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