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 WITHOUT CC/MCC
Based on 8,335–37,198 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$23.4k
Median
$21.9k
High
$116.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $111.1k | $91.2k | $27.8k | 31% | 1,004 | $21.9k – $118.3k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $63.8k | $66.2k | $42.8k | 65% | 780 | $14.3k – $127.5k |
| 3 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $13.8k | $12.1k | $8.0k | 66% | 714–930 | $278 – $31.9k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $39.5k | $45.3k | $27.5k | 61% | 405 | $4.1k – $79.0k |
| 5 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $14.5k | $15.8k | $10.3k | 65% | 300–462 | $160 – $39.3k |
| 6 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $24.5k | $34.5k | $22.0k | 64% | 253 | $14.3k – $87.1k |
| 7 | Orlando Health, Inc. Orlando, FL | $24.6k | $32.4k | $24.2k | 75% | 148–427 | $11.2k – $169.8k |
| 8 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $6.3k | $11.7k | $10.4k | 89% | 144–414 | $1.1k – $42.4k |
| 9 | Lutheran Musculoskeletal Center LLC Fort Wayne, IN | $22.5k | $22.0k | $9.0k | 41% | 118–262 | $1.2k – $57.6k |
| 10 | Jefferson Regional Medical Center JEFFERSON HILLS, PA | $14.3k | $15.0k | $7.2k | 48% | 116–332 | $1.7k – $31.1k |
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