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
NO ACTIVE CODE DESCRIPTION
Low
$160
Average
$3.3k
Median
$3.8k
High
$5.3k
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Showing only prices reported under the per diem methodology. Choose another in the filter above to change the chart. 11 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 5.3× 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 | Dignity Community Care Northridge, CA | $950 | $950 | — | — | — | $950 – $14.7k |
| 2 | St Anthony's Hospital Association Morrilton, AR | $3.8k | $3.8k | $110 | 3% | — | $3.6k – $19.3k |
| 3 | Burleson St. Joseph Health Center Of Caldwell, Texas Caldwell, TX | $3.0k | $3.8k | $2.0k | 53% | — | $750 – $8.6k |
| 4 | The University of Tennessee Medical Center Knoxville, TN | $1.4k | $1.5k | $243 | 16% | — | $1.3k – $27.0k |
| 5 | University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | $4.5k | $4.5k | — | — | — | $4.5k – $4.5k |
| 6 | West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc PITTSBURGH, PA | $160 | $160 | — | — | — | $160 – $160 |
| 7 | Richland Memorial Hospital Inc Olney, IL | $3.6k | $3.6k | — | — | — | $3.6k – $3.6k |
| 8 | BayCare Alliant Hospital Dunedin, FL | $2.7k | $2.7k | $837 | 31% | — | $1.9k – $3.6k |
| 9 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $5.0k | $5.0k | — | — | — | $5.0k – $5.0k |
| 10 | USA Health Children's & Women's Hospital Mobile, AL | $5.3k | $5.3k | — | — | — | $5.3k – $5.3k |
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