RC 257
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
LIDOCAINE 4 % TOPICAL CREAM
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Low
$0
Average
$35
Median
$13
High
$230
Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 23 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 40.5× 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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Reflects a negotiated percentage of total billed charges.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nemours Children's Hospital Wilmington, DE | $12 | $28 | $64 | 230% | 13,789–15,292 | $4 – $764 |
| 2 | Nemours Children's Hospital 6535 Nemours Parkway | $13 | $31 | $139 | 457% | 1,390–1,534 | $6 – $2.1k |
| 3 | Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center LLC Wilmington, NC | $42 | $75 | $70 | 94% | 336–408 | $32 – $243 |
| 4 | Beaufort Memorial Hospital Beaufort, SC | $2 | $2 | $2 | 99% | 1–10 | $0 – $8 |
| 5 | Knox County Hospital District Knox City, TX | $8 | $8 | $2 | 29% | — | $5 – $19 |
| 6 | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO | $12 | $11 | $8 | 71% | — | $0 – $117 |
| 7 | Shannon Medical Center Big Spring Big Spring, TX | $14 | $13 | $3 | 26% | — | $3 – $17 |
| 8 | SID Peterson Memorial Hospital Kerrville, TX | $38 | $230 | $288 | 125% | — | $0 – $887 |
| 9 | Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Charles, LA | $0 | $0 | — | — | — | $0 – $0 |
| 10 | Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital Murfreesboro, TN | $50 | $50 | — | — | — | $50 – $50 |
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