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
SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITH SPINAL CURVATURE, MALIGNANCY, INFECTION OR EXTENSIVE FUSIONS WITH MCC
Based on 1,939–9,652 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$890
Average
$96.4k
Median
$89.6k
High
$529.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $396.1k | $314.5k | $116.0k | 37% | 849–1,002 | $109.5k – $564.4k |
| 2 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $64.1k | $73.4k | $55.9k | 76% | 102–156 | $160 – $188.2k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $209.8k | $241.3k | $147.0k | 61% | 43–430 | $59.8k – $466.3k |
| 4 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $98.4k | $99.6k | $48.8k | 49% | 38–92 | $1.2k – $345.4k |
| 5 | Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital Shelbyville, TN | $119.8k | $118.3k | $44.3k | 37% | 34 | $30.2k – $179.6k |
| 6 | Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital Tullahoma, TN | $119.8k | $119.0k | $44.4k | 37% | 34 | $35.7k – $179.6k |
| 7 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $102.7k | $134.5k | $76.3k | 57% | 27–270 | $59.8k – $325.9k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $123.2k | $113.8k | $51.1k | 45% | 25–250 | $31.9k – $195.5k |
| 9 | Barnes Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO | $122.1k | $124.2k | $68.0k | 55% | 23–113 | $64.9k – $339.5k |
| 10 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $79.6k | $85.9k | $10.3k | 12% | 21–57 | $75.7k – $98.4k |
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