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
SPINAL PROCEDURES WITH MCC
Low
$2
Average
$121.5k
Median
$70.8k
High
$1319.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $252.1k | $202.9k | $64.7k | 32% | 823–994 | $48.9k – $261.7k |
| 2 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $24.5k | $23.9k | $20.8k | 87% | 300–408 | $1.8k – $44.7k |
| 3 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $4.6k | $4.6k | — | — | 240 | $4.6k – $4.6k |
| 4 | Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital Tullahoma, TN | $18.2k | $18.2k | — | — | 63 | $8.9k – $128.4k |
| 5 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $18.2k | $18.2k | — | — | 63 | $7.6k – $128.4k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $264.5k | $293.9k | $122.5k | 42% | 29–290 | $42.8k – $440.8k |
| 7 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $142.9k | $136.8k | $50.1k | 37% | 20–200 | $39.6k – $184.4k |
| 8 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $143.9k | $151.6k | $76.0k | 50% | 15–150 | $43.1k – $261.7k |
| 9 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $119.8k | $113.9k | $35.7k | 31% | 14–140 | $25.2k – $154.6k |
| 10 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $109.5k | $118.2k | $46.3k | 39% | 13–130 | $39.8k – $206.2k |
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