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
Low
$0
Average
$4.1k
Median
$3.3k
High
$66.5k
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Reflects a negotiated per diem rate paid per day of care.
Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 619 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 4.9× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Infirmary Health Thomas Fairhope, AL | $1.4k | $2.2k | $1.3k | 57% | 17–170 | $1.1k – $26.3k |
| 2 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $3.3k | $3.6k | $3.0k | 83% | 10–100 | $330 – $15.9k |
| 3 | Gadsden Regional Medical Center LLC Gadsden, AL | $1.1k | $1.4k | $538 | 39% | 1–10 | $690 – $11.7k |
| 4 | Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Angeles, CA | $4.8k | $5.2k | $1.8k | 35% | 1–10 | $3k – $22.8k |
| 5 | Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center Plainsboro, NJ | $3.0k | $3.8k | $1.9k | 50% | 1–10 | $1.7k – $15.3k |
| 6 | St Louis Childrens Hospital Saint Louis, MO | $7.7k | $8.2k | $1.4k | 16% | 1–10 | $6.0k – $44.8k |
| 7 | Nemours Children's Hospital 6535 Nemours Parkway | $1.8k | $2.1k | $696 | 33% | 1–10 | $1.5k – $18.6k |
| 8 | Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, OH | $1.3k | $1.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.3k – $12.8k |
| 9 | Anderson Hospital Maryville, IL | $2.5k | $2.6k | $500 | 19% | 1–10 | $2.2k – $18.8k |
| 10 | Medical Ctiy Argyle Argyle, TX | $5.5k | $4.5k | $2.3k | 52% | — | $927 – $26.3k |
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