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 WITHOUT CC/MCC
Based on 1,559–9,092 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$20.7k
Median
$19.1k
High
$125.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $124.7k | $106.8k | $30.3k | 28% | 655–835 | $24.2k – $145.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $72.8k | $73.0k | $51.4k | 70% | 39–390 | $11.8k – $145.5k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $46.2k | $53.0k | $33.0k | 62% | 27–270 | $11.8k – $92.4k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $54.7k | $52.6k | $38.8k | 74% | 25–250 | $11.8k – $111.7k |
| 5 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $15.4k | $15.4k | $155 | 1% | 23–50 | $15.2k – $15.5k |
| 6 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $20.3k | $33.9k | $24.0k | 71% | 23–230 | $11.8k – $89.9k |
| 7 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $30.8k | $75.2k | $65.5k | 87% | 21–210 | $11.9k – $185.6k |
| 8 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $15.7k | $15.7k | $158 | 1% | 20–29 | $15.5k – $15.8k |
| 9 | The Methodist Hospital Houston, TX | $16.3k | $25.0k | $16.4k | 66% | 19–82 | $12.1k – $78.2k |
| 10 | The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania D/B/A The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | $17.0k | $23.2k | $14.7k | 63% | 18–81 | $545 – $69.4k |
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