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
POSTOPERATIVE OR POST-TRAUMATIC INFECTIONS WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC
Based on 7,963–32,623 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$56
Average
$50.9k
Median
$48.3k
High
$369.0k
Filter by billing methodology
Showing prices across every billing methodology. Pick one in the filter above to narrow the chart. 2075 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 3.2× 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.
Click a bar to filter the hospitals table to that price range.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $101.3k | $89.9k | $34.7k | 39% | 1,412 | $32.3k – $166.3k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $75.6k | $87.8k | $43.6k | 50% | 702 | $21.8k – $152.3k |
| 3 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $51.7k | $60.6k | $29.0k | 48% | 480 | $25.5k – $132.1k |
| 4 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $30.4k | $26.1k | $23.9k | 92% | 474–690 | $160 – $94.1k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $56.0k | $52.6k | $19.5k | 37% | 351 | $16.1k – $74.7k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $59.5k | $56.9k | $23.7k | 42% | 325 | $15.4k – $94.4k |
| 7 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $33.9k | $38.1k | $19.8k | 52% | 246–300 | $1.7k – $76.3k |
| 8 | Jefferson Regional Medical Center JEFFERSON HILLS, PA | $34.4k | $36.5k | $18.5k | 51% | 228–300 | $1.0k – $74.4k |
| 9 | Infirmary Health Mobile Mobile, AL | $33.6k | $35.7k | $23.7k | 66% | 119 | $893 – $87.4k |
| 10 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $50.4k | $49.5k | $19.1k | 39% | 108–171 | $1.2k – $109.9k |
Ask Claude or any MCP client for MS-DRG 856 pricing at a specific hospital — see how to connect.