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
HC ER MASTOTOMY EXPL/DRAIN ABSCESS DEEP
Low
$221
Average
$11.6k
Median
$2.6k
High
$6824.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $540 | $717 | $371 | 52% | 16–160 | $266 – $1.5k |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $511 | $680 | $352 | 52% | 16–160 | $252 – $1.4k |
| 3 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Concord, NC | $2.7k | $2.7k | $1.3k | 47% | 10–100 | $633 – $4.9k |
| 4 | Capital Health System Inc Pennington, NJ | $1.2k | $3.0k | $3.3k | 108% | 6–60 | $408 – $8.7k |
| 5 | Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch, NJ | $7.5k | $7.5k | — | — | 5–50 | $7.5k – $7.5k |
| 6 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $20.4k | $20.4k | — | — | 4–40 | $20.4k – $20.4k |
| 7 | Methodist Medical Center of Illinois Peoria, IL | $1.8k | $1.9k | $636 | 34% | 3–30 | $924 – $3.1k |
| 8 | The Carle Foundation Hospital Urbana, IL | $3.9k | $3.4k | $1.6k | 47% | 3–30 | $620 – $5.3k |
| 9 | Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton Carrollton, GA | $6.2k | $6.1k | $887 | 15% | 3–30 | $5.0k – $7.1k |
| 10 | High Point Regional Health High Point, NC | $706 | $756 | $405 | 54% | 3–30 | $248 – $1.6k |
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