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
Removal of Foreign Body
Based on 115–1,150 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$50
Average
$2.1k
Median
$1.8k
High
$42.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | The Carle Foundation Hospital Urbana, IL | $1.8k | $1.6k | $838 | 53% | 12–120 | $135 – $3.0k |
| 2 | Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital CLINTON, SC | $1.8k | $2.1k | $951 | 45% | 8–80 | $216 – $4.9k |
| 3 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway Rahway, NJ | $2.0k | $2.4k | $1.3k | 56% | 4–40 | $162 – $5.4k |
| 4 | Lake Regional Health System Osage Beach, MO | $1.8k | $2.1k | $473 | 23% | 4–40 | $1.5k – $3.1k |
| 5 | Prisma Health Richland Hospital COLUMBIA, SC | $1.6k | $2.3k | $1.7k | 74% | 4–40 | $751 – $13.2k |
| 6 | Carle BroMenn Medical Center Normal, IL | $1.8k | $1.9k | $1.1k | 55% | 4–40 | $82 – $3.6k |
| 7 | Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital COLUMBIA, SC | $1.6k | $2.3k | $1.7k | 74% | 4–40 | $751 – $13.2k |
| 8 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $1.6k | $1.4k | $971 | 67% | 3–30 | $130 – $3.4k |
| 9 | AnMed Health Cannon Pickens, SC | $143 | $540 | $898 | 166% | 3–30 | $12 – $3.2k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $1.6k | $1.4k | $971 | 67% | 3–30 | $130 – $3.4k |
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