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
Low
$2
Average
$81.5k
Median
$58.6k
High
$399.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $101.3k | $89.9k | $34.7k | 39% | 1,412 | $32.3k – $166.3k |
| 2 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $6.2k | $10.3k | $10.1k | 99% | 474–690 | $2.8k – $33.9k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $114.4k | $107.6k | $41.9k | 39% | 450 | $21.8k – $152.3k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $70.1k | $75.5k | $29.6k | 39% | 260 | $25.5k – $132.1k |
| 5 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc MONROEVILLE, PA | $35.5k | $35.5k | $33.7k | 95% | 246–300 | $1.7k – $69.2k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $67.2k | $56.3k | $21.3k | 38% | 234 | $16.1k – $74.7k |
| 7 | Jefferson Regional Medical Center JEFFERSON HILLS, PA | $19.2k | $25.5k | $25.8k | 101% | 228–300 | $1.0k – $62.8k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $73.2k | $69.5k | $21.8k | 31% | 182 | $15.4k – $94.4k |
| 9 | Alle-kiski Medical Center NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA | $1.0k | $1.0k | — | — | 100 | $1.0k – $1.0k |
| 10 | Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital Tullahoma, TN | $47.7k | $47.7k | — | — | 23 | $11.4k – $97.2k |
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