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
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DIAGNOSIS WITH VENTILATOR SUPPORT <=96 HOURS
Low
$56
Average
$34.6k
Median
$32.6k
High
$126.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $28.3k | $31.4k | $7.6k | 24% | 1,044 | $6.1k – $40.7k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $36.5k | $36.7k | $5.4k | 15% | 720 | $19.6k – $45.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $41.1k | $41.9k | $6.5k | 16% | 196 | $19.6k – $51.5k |
| 4 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $25.2k | $26.6k | $3.5k | 13% | 167–221 | $20.3k – $33.7k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $21.6k | $21.6k | — | — | 146 | $19.6k – $21.6k |
| 6 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $32.6k | $34.2k | $3.8k | 11% | 112 | $19.7k – $40.0k |
| 7 | St Tammany Hosptial Service District No 2 Slidell, LA | $17.6k | $23.1k | $9.5k | 41% | 80–800 | $5.4k – $74.3k |
| 8 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $47.6k | $69.6k | $48.5k | 70% | 26–161 | $8.5k – $161.8k |
| 9 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $26.7k | $53.8k | $38.5k | 72% | 26–152 | $11.4k – $140.1k |
| 10 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Edison, NJ | $26.6k | $46.5k | $30.4k | 65% | 23–131 | $5.0k – $114.9k |
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