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
LOWER EXTREMITY AND HUMERUS PROCEDURES EXCEPT HIP, FOOT AND FEMUR WITH CC
Low
$56
Average
$32.5k
Median
$29.6k
High
$134.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $37.6k | $41.5k | $14.0k | 34% | 629 | $425 – $78.0k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $26.1k | $27.3k | $6.4k | 23% | 322 | $18.0k – $36.9k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $19.2k | $25.4k | $9.0k | 35% | 259 | $18.0k – $39.5k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $20.3k | $23.2k | $4.9k | 21% | 252 | $18.0k – $31.0k |
| 5 | Public Hospital Dist No 1 Skagit dba Cascade Valley Hospital Arlington, WA | $134.0k | $134.0k | — | — | 228 | $285 – $134.0k |
| 6 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $23.0k | $24.7k | $4.5k | 18% | 126–189 | $16.2k – $36.0k |
| 7 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $26.1k | $28.5k | $13.8k | 49% | 78–87 | $10.0k – $52.5k |
| 8 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $30.1k | $31.6k | $3.5k | 11% | 77 | $18.2k – $36.9k |
| 9 | Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, NY | $34.4k | $35.7k | $3.8k | 11% | 46–73 | $30.1k – $44.8k |
| 10 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL | $28.7k | $29.1k | $8.1k | 28% | 39–48 | $10.9k – $56.6k |
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