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Original text from hospital filings
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Low
$56
Average
$74.1k
Median
$68.1k
High
$277.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $54.9k | $59.3k | $8.4k | 14% | 19–46 | $46.4k – $76.4k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $49.0k | $60.0k | $14.8k | 25% | 11–110 | $42.8k – $89.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $79.9k | $80.2k | $11.8k | 15% | 10–100 | $42.8k – $99.9k |
| 4 | Ohio State University Hospitals Columbus, OH | $41.4k | $64.8k | $37.3k | 58% | 8–80 | $37.8k – $284.7k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $45.5k | $60.2k | $21.3k | 35% | 7–70 | $42.8k – $93.7k |
| 6 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $71.4k | $74.8k | $8.4k | 11% | 7–70 | $43.1k – $87.4k |
| 7 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $61.8k | $64.6k | $15.2k | 23% | 7–70 | $42.8k – $87.5k |
| 8 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $83.8k | $150.5k | $106.4k | 71% | 6–60 | $11.5k – $366.5k |
| 9 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $59.3k | $116.1k | $85.0k | 73% | 6–60 | $16.2k – $308.9k |
| 10 | MedStar Washington Hospital Center Washington, DC | $162.7k | $163.4k | $40.5k | 25% | 6–60 | $55.5k – $245.7k |
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