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Original text from hospital filings
CARDIAC PACEMAKER DEVICE REPLACEMENT WITHOUT MCC
Based on 338–3,236 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$820
Average
$23.6k
Median
$22.2k
High
$95.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $98.5k | $87.9k | $32.3k | 37% | 46–460 | $30.8k – $160.3k |
| 2 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $24.7k | $38.0k | $25.7k | 68% | 23–230 | $14.4k – $98.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $29.4k | $38.8k | $22.5k | 58% | 21–210 | $13.1k – $79.0k |
| 4 | Raleigh General Hospital Beckley, WV | $4.2k | $8.5k | $11.8k | 138% | 20–200 | $6 – $56.2k |
| 5 | Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital Clarksville, TN | $15.1k | $14.1k | $10.3k | 73% | 16 | $990 – $52.4k |
| 6 | Orlando Health, Inc. Orlando, FL | $23.8k | $27.2k | $10.3k | 38% | 8–80 | $13.8k – $61.1k |
| 7 | Infirmary Health Thomas Fairhope, AL | $15.6k | $24.3k | $14.9k | 61% | 8–80 | $1.1k – $62.8k |
| 8 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $13.2k | $18.2k | $9.5k | 52% | 6–60 | $2.7k – $39.3k |
| 9 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $23.7k | $23.0k | $8.4k | 37% | 6–60 | $1.2k – $49.8k |
| 10 | Triad of Alabama LLC Dothan, AL | $14.4k | $9.4k | $7.4k | 78% | 5–50 | $754 – $24.2k |
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