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
ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH CC
Low
$890
Average
$14.3k
Median
$12.7k
High
$70.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $9.5k | $9.9k | $2.3k | 23% | 546 | $6.5k – $13.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $7.0k | $9.2k | $3.3k | 35% | 539 | $6.5k – $14.3k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $12.2k | $12.3k | $1.8k | 15% | 430 | $6.5k – $15.3k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $13.7k | $14.0k | $2.2k | 16% | 301 | $6.5k – $17.2k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $7.4k | $8.4k | $1.8k | 21% | 301 | $6.5k – $11.2k |
| 6 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $10.9k | $11.4k | $1.3k | 11% | 224 | $6.6k – $13.4k |
| 7 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $13.1k | $13.1k | — | — | 84 | $893 – $37.3k |
| 8 | St Tammany Hosptial Service District No 2 Slidell, LA | $6.2k | $8.4k | $2.9k | 34% | 67–571 | $3.9k – $35.0k |
| 9 | Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, NY | $13.4k | $13.7k | $1.0k | 8% | 56–92 | $12.2k – $16.2k |
| 10 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $9.9k | $12.9k | $7.1k | 55% | 53–89 | $7.6k – $39.7k |
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