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
VENTRICULAR SHUNT PROCEDURES WITH CC
Low
$1
Average
$50.6k
Median
$43.6k
High
$171.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $125.4k | $106.9k | $30.9k | 29% | 852 | $24.3k – $149.9k |
| 2 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $10.6k | $9.7k | $5.4k | 55% | 312–420 | $2.8k – $15.8k |
| 3 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Dallas, TX | $1.5k | $1.5k | $255 | 17% | 28 | $1.3k – $61.5k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $112.6k | $106.1k | $41.0k | 39% | 25–250 | $15.2k – $149.9k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $90.4k | $77.4k | $27.4k | 35% | 18–180 | $15.2k – $100.4k |
| 6 | Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital Tullahoma, TN | $91.6k | $91.6k | — | — | 17 | $9.1k – $91.6k |
| 7 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $91.6k | $91.6k | — | — | 17 | $7.7k – $91.6k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $89.4k | $85.0k | $26.6k | 31% | 14–140 | $15.2k – $115.4k |
| 9 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $68.2k | $65.0k | $26.3k | 40% | 12–120 | $15.2k – $112.9k |
| 10 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $134.7k | $129.1k | $50.7k | 39% | 11–110 | $15.3k – $188.5k |
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