HCPCS C1824 · 1 hospitals reporting

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Cheapest published

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Lowest published price across all reporting hospitals.

Median across 1 hospitals

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The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

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Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

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Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

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CHSLI ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
CHSLI ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL	NY	$132,250	—	$23,805	$132,250	5 insurers

Data straight from each hospital's federally-mandated machine-readable file (45 CFR § 180). Prices reflect what the hospital published; what you actually pay depends on your specific plan, deductible, and other factors. "Cash price" is the discounted self-pay rate hospitals are required to publish for uninsured patients.