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Original text from hospital filings
AORTIC AND HEART ASSIST PROCEDURES EXCEPT PULSATION BALLOON WITH MCC
Low
$725
Average
$86.9k
Median
$79.1k
High
$315.5k
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| 1 | Ohio State University Hospitals Columbus, OH | $47.4k | $74.1k | $42.7k | 58% | 20–101 | $43.2k – $335.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $94.0k | $105.2k | $33.8k | 32% | 14–140 | $425 – $211.4k |
| 3 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL | $73.6k | $74.4k | $24.3k | 33% | 11 | $14.7k – $153.6k |
| 4 | Virtua_Our_Lady_of_Lourdes_Inc Camden, NJ | $82.9k | $100.7k | $40.7k | 40% | 10–100 | $54.3k – $176.8k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $70.8k | $74.0k | $17.4k | 23% | 7–70 | $48.9k – $100.2k |
| 6 | Infirmary Health Thomas Fairhope, AL | $52.0k | $38.1k | $18.6k | 49% | 7–70 | $1.1k – $226.1k |
| 7 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $64.7k | $130.7k | $99.9k | 76% | 6–60 | $16.2k – $385.3k |
| 8 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $44.3k | $45.3k | $10.8k | 24% | 6–60 | $893 – $167.0k |
| 9 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $63.0k | $67.0k | $9.1k | 14% | 5–50 | $54.7k – $83.8k |
| 10 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $129.7k | $116.7k | $38.3k | 33% | 5–50 | $58.7k – $180.3k |
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