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Original text from hospital filings
LOWER EXTREMITY AND HUMERUS PROCEDURES EXCEPT HIP, FOOT AND FEMUR WITH MCC
Based on 4,537–22,798 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$41.5k
Median
$38.9k
High
$229.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $153.2k | $129.7k | $39.5k | 30% | 989 | $38.7k – $199.4k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $71.9k | $83.0k | $49.5k | 60% | 504 | $749 – $143.8k |
| 3 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $45.4k | $57.9k | $31.7k | 55% | 480 | $25.7k – $133.3k |
| 4 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $26.2k | $27.0k | $13.1k | 48% | 138–246 | $1.5k – $60.1k |
| 5 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $41.2k | $42.6k | $20.7k | 49% | 83–164 | $1.2k – $140.0k |
| 6 | Miami Valley Hospital Dayton, OH | $30.4k | $45.1k | $25.6k | 57% | 64–190 | $2.3k – $111.5k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $68.8k | $84.5k | $46.7k | 55% | 39–390 | $21.9k – $152.9k |
| 8 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $32.8k | $32.2k | $6.5k | 20% | 39–84 | $19.5k – $44.6k |
| 9 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $5.9k | $17.4k | $18.3k | 105% | 32–320 | $1.1k – $67.4k |
| 10 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $26.9k | $27.6k | $17.7k | 64% | 30–300 | $160 – $74.0k |
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