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
BACK AND NECK PROCEDURES EXCEPT SPINAL FUSION WITHOUT CC/MCC
Low
$1
Average
$41.8k
Median
$32.7k
High
$199.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $99.3k | $79.0k | $26.3k | 33% | 637 | $21.1k – $108.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $59.6k | $60.9k | $28.9k | 48% | 363 | $9.9k – $99.3k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $58.2k | $55.3k | $17.3k | 31% | 154 | $10.6k – $75.1k |
| 4 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $545 | $545 | — | — | 126 | $545 – $545 |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $120.4k | $123.3k | $16.8k | 14% | 21–111 | $13.5k – $162.7k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $73.9k | $71.1k | $24.5k | 34% | 19–190 | $10.6k – $92.4k |
| 7 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $7.0k | $7.0k | $4.1k | 58% | 12–120 | $2.9k – $11.0k |
| 8 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $71.9k | $68.7k | $27.0k | 39% | 11–110 | $10.7k – $100.5k |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $146.0k | $161.0k | $98.7k | 61% | 8–80 | $12.5k – $316.1k |
| 10 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $69.8k | $65.0k | $28.1k | 43% | 5–50 | $13.3k – $97.9k |
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