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 REMOVAL FOREIGN BODY MUSCLE/TENDON SHEATH DEEP/COMPLICATED
Based on 201–1,524 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$86
Average
$3.8k
Median
$3.5k
High
$24.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $6.7k | $6.5k | $1.4k | 22% | 54 | $1.2k – $8.5k |
| 2 | Dignity Community Care Chandler, AZ | $441 | $1.5k | $1.5k | 103% | 8–80 | $260 – $5.5k |
| 3 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $485 | $646 | $605 | 94% | 6–60 | $91 – $2.8k |
| 4 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $485 | $646 | $605 | 94% | 6–60 | $91 – $2.8k |
| 5 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $3.6k | $4.8k | $3.1k | 65% | 6–60 | $466 – $12.9k |
| 6 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $860 | $1.7k | $1.9k | 111% | 6–60 | $130 – $9.5k |
| 7 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $9.6k | $8.6k | $4.2k | 49% | 5–50 | $2.6k – $15.0k |
| 8 | Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch, NJ | $4.0k | $4.7k | $2.3k | 49% | 5–50 | $552 – $10.7k |
| 9 | Sanford USD Medical Center Sioux Falls, SD | $3.0k | $2.8k | $1.1k | 40% | 4–40 | $248 – $4.0k |
| 10 | Atrium Health Hospitals Inc Shelby, NC | $563 | $643 | $563 | 88% | 4–40 | $150 – $2.8k |
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