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Original text from hospital filings
CRANIOTOMY AND ENDOVASCULAR INTRACRANIAL PROCEDURES WITH CC
Based on 8,319–28,524 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$890
Average
$37.5k
Median
$34.9k
High
$320.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $96.9k | $110.2k | $73.5k | 67% | 2,067 | $22.1k – $215.3k |
| 2 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $22.3k | $21.3k | $17.2k | 81% | 990–1,206 | $160 – $64.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $219.4k | $173.3k | $57.8k | 33% | 829 | $45.0k – $231.9k |
| 4 | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania D/B/A The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | $34.0k | $46.8k | $36.5k | 78% | 244–460 | $545 – $212.4k |
| 5 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $21.9k | $27.7k | $19.8k | 72% | 128 | $893 – $79.8k |
| 6 | Allina Health Systems Minneapolis, MN | $37.8k | $40.7k | $17.7k | 44% | 120–210 | $18.9k – $72.9k |
| 7 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $31.2k | $43.1k | $24.9k | 58% | 117–342 | $17.0k – $140.8k |
| 8 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Dallas, TX | $28.1k | $39.7k | $24.5k | 62% | 112 | $928 – $88.1k |
| 9 | The Methodist Hospital Houston, TX | $31.2k | $44.4k | $24.9k | 56% | 102–237 | $875 – $133.0k |
| 10 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $36.4k | $36.1k | $15.4k | 43% | 96–159 | $1.2k – $96.0k |
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