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
SEPTIC ARTHRITIS WITHOUT CC/MCC
Based on 522–4,248 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$11.2k
Median
$10.5k
High
$63.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $6.6k | $8.0k | $6.5k | 81% | 108 | $160 – $21.2k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $34.6k | $29.0k | $8.5k | 29% | 44–440 | $6.7k – $48.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $24.3k | $25.7k | $15.9k | 62% | 39–390 | $6.2k – $48.7k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $6.2k | $6.7k | $2.6k | 39% | 23–230 | $2.5k – $13.0k |
| 5 | Infirmary Health Thomas Fairhope, AL | $6.9k | $7.4k | $5.7k | 76% | 18–180 | $1.1k – $26.3k |
| 6 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $6.8k | $6.2k | $4.0k | 63% | 10–100 | $330 – $15.9k |
| 7 | Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian Newport Beach, CA | $8.7k | $8.4k | $6.6k | 78% | 6–60 | $20 – $26.1k |
| 8 | William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI | $8.6k | $8.6k | $3.1k | 36% | 6–60 | $481 – $14.6k |
| 9 | William Beaumont Hospital Troy, MI | $8.6k | $8.6k | $3.1k | 36% | 6–60 | $481 – $14.6k |
| 10 | Orlando Health, Inc. Orlando, FL | $11.3k | $14.6k | $5.6k | 39% | 5–50 | $7.2k – $33.3k |
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