HCPCS G0518 · 469 hospitals reporting

Remove w insert drug implant

The same procedure costs $137 at one hospital and $1,563 at another — a 11× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $1,275.

Cheapest published

$137

Lowest published price across all reporting hospitals.

Median across 469 hospitals

$1,275

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

Most expensive

$1,563

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

Price distribution

26 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

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.

469 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
TRINITY ROCK ISLAND	IL	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	3 insurers
UNITYPOINT HEALTH - MARSHALLTOWN	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	5 insurers
TRINITY MUSCATINE	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	1 insurers
TRINITY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	1 insurers
ST LUKES HOSPITAL	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	1 insurers
UNITYPOINT HEALTH - DES MOINES IOWA METHODIST MEDI	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	1 insurers
TRINITY - BETTENDORF	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	2 insurers
ALLEN HOSPITAL	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	3 insurers
FINLEY HOSPITAL	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	3 insurers
ST LUKES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	1 insurers
GRINNELL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	5 insurers
GRUNDY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	3 insurers
JONES REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	IA	$1,594	$1,275	—	—	5 insurers
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK-ALICE HY	NY	$1,563	$1,563	—	—	5 insurers
WALLOWA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	OR	$1,052	$947	$352	$1,020	0 insurers
MARION GENERAL HOSPITAL	OH	$1,282	$833	—	—	0 insurers
DOCTORS HOSPITAL	OH	$1,282	$833	—	—	0 insurers
GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	OH	$1,282	$833	—	—	0 insurers
OHIOHEALTH SHELBY HOSPITAL	OH	$1,282	$833	—	—	0 insurers
SURGICAL INSTITUTE OF READING	PA	—	$644	$1,492	$1,492	1 insurers
VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER	WA	$973	$496	—	—	4 insurers
JEFFERSON EINSTEIN PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL	PA	—	$468	—	—	5 insurers
JEFFERSON EINSTEIN MONTGOMERY HOSPITAL	PA	—	$468	—	—	5 insurers
HILTON HEAD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER	SC	—	$137	$121	$931	5 insurers
EAST COOPER MEDICAL CENTER	SC	—	$137	$99.39	$2,843	5 insurers
COASTAL CAROLINA HOSPITAL	SC	—	$137	$101	$794	5 insurers
ADVENTHEALTH MURRAY	GA	—	—	$416	$5,063	5 insurers
EMORY DECATUR HOSPITAL	GA	—	—	—	—	5 insurers
EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MIDTOWN	GA	—	—	—	—	5 insurers
GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	GA	—	—	—	—	5 insurers
GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	GA	—	—	—	—	5 insurers
SAINT JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF ATLANTA, INC	GA	—	—	—	—	5 insurers
ATRIUM HEALTH NAVICENT THE MEDICAL CENTER	GA	—	—	—	—	1 insurers
BURKE MEDICAL CENTER	GA	—	—	—	—	5 insurers
FAIRVIEW PARK HOSPITAL	GA	—	—	$1,003	$1,045	5 insurers
MEMORIAL HEALTH MEADOWS HOSPITAL	GA	—	—	$1,003	$1,024	2 insurers
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL- EMORY HEALTHCARE	GA	—	—	$391	$2,643	5 insurers
NAVICENT HEALTH BALDWIN	GA	—	—	—	—	2 insurers
ADVENTHEALTH REDMOND	GA	—	—	$464	$5,063	5 insurers
EMORY HILLANDALE HOSPITAL	GA	—	—	—	—	5 insurers