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
AORTIC AND HEART ASSIST PROCEDURES EXCEPT PULSATION BALLOON WITHOUT MCC
Low
$890
Average
$56.7k
Median
$52.4k
High
$194.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $56.1k | $56.3k | $8.3k | 15% | 600 | $30.1k – $70.2k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $43.4k | $45.4k | $10.7k | 23% | 203 | $30.1k – $61.5k |
| 3 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $38.8k | $47.0k | $13.7k | 29% | 140–176 | $34.1k – $83.2k |
| 4 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $26.3k | $26.9k | $7.9k | 30% | 138 | $893 – $144.6k |
| 5 | Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, NY | $56.4k | $58.9k | $6.6k | 11% | 37–82 | $51.1k – $74.6k |
| 6 | Ohio State University Hospitals Columbus, OH | $29.1k | $45.5k | $26.2k | 58% | 21–75 | $26.5k – $183.6k |
| 7 | St Tammany Hosptial Service District No 2 Slidell, LA | $27.2k | $35.7k | $14.9k | 42% | 18–180 | $5.6k – $87.7k |
| 8 | Geisinger Medical Center Danville, PA | $68.9k | $69.3k | $33.2k | 48% | 17–35 | $27.5k – $254.2k |
| 9 | Geisinger Wyoming Valley Wilkes-Barre, PA | $57.4k | $63.2k | $32.8k | 52% | 14–32 | $27.5k – $273.3k |
| 10 | Virtua_Our_Lady_of_Lourdes_Inc Camden, NJ | $51.7k | $62.3k | $25.2k | 41% | 9–90 | $33.4k – $109.5k |
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