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
LOCAL EXCISION AND REMOVAL OF INTERNAL FIXATION DEVICES EXCEPT HIP AND FEMUR WITHOUT CC/MCC
Based on 720–6,390 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$16.1k
Median
$14.6k
High
$98.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $10.2k | $11.7k | $8.6k | 73% | 96–150 | $160 – $29.2k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $62.1k | $51.3k | $16.2k | 32% | 45–450 | $13.8k – $71.2k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $31.0k | $33.2k | $19.9k | 60% | 39–390 | $8.6k – $62.1k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $14.8k | $22.7k | $15.3k | 67% | 23–230 | $8.6k – $58.7k |
| 5 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $8.8k | $7.3k | $3.4k | 47% | 11–110 | $330 – $14.4k |
| 6 | Alle-kiski Medical Center NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA | $9.7k | $11.9k | $4.8k | 40% | 10–100 | $2.7k – $21.8k |
| 7 | Affinity Hospital LLC Birmingham, AL | $7.7k | $6.0k | $3.9k | 64% | 8–80 | $550 – $14.1k |
| 8 | Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Philadelphia, PA | $16.8k | $17.2k | $7.9k | 46% | 8–80 | $545 – $36.4k |
| 9 | Allina Health Systems Minneapolis, MN | $14.7k | $15.4k | $6.0k | 39% | 8–80 | $7.3k – $24.8k |
| 10 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Canton, GA | $6.3k | $8.2k | $5.2k | 63% | 8–80 | $1.1k – $25.3k |
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