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
MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC
Low
$0
Average
$23.3k
Median
$18.2k
High
$166.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $39.9k | $31.5k | $10.4k | 33% | 3,155 | $8.4k – $43.6k |
| 2 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $3.5k | $7.8k | $12.6k | 162% | 960–1,230 | $419 – $46.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $33.3k | $31.8k | $13.6k | 43% | 819 | $6.9k – $46.2k |
| 4 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $6.0k | $4.3k | $2.8k | 66% | 546–816 | $132 – $7.1k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $30.3k | $26.0k | $8.9k | 34% | 476 | $6.4k – $35.2k |
| 6 | Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center LLC Poplar Bluff, MO | $683 | $683 | — | — | 316 | $683 – $21.2k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital Wheaton, IL | $28.4k | $32.9k | $11.4k | 35% | 176 | $19.9k – $45.1k |
| 8 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc WEXFORD, PA | $5.9k | $8.1k | $7.3k | 90% | 95–185 | $466 – $18.0k |
| 9 | Grove City Medical Center GROVE CITY, PA | $232 | $232 | — | — | 75 | $232 – $232 |
| 10 | Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital Arlington, TX | $63 | $63 | — | — | 63 | $63 – $33.6k |
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