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 growth of muscle of neck or front of chest, less than 5.0 cm
Low
$261
Average
$5.1k
Median
$2.6k
High
$73.1k
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| 1 | Sonora Community Hospital Sonora, CA | $3.7k | $3.6k | $2.3k | 62% | 16–160 | $920 – $7.9k |
| 2 | Community Medical Center Toms River, NJ | $2.7k | $5.4k | $3.0k | 55% | 11–110 | $2.7k – $8.8k |
| 3 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset Somerville, NJ | $7.0k | $8.7k | $2.2k | 25% | 10–100 | $7.0k – $11.4k |
| 4 | Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark, NJ | $10.3k | $10.3k | $818 | 8% | 10–100 | $9.4k – $11.1k |
| 5 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $8.5k | $6.2k | $3.1k | 50% | 8–80 | $1.2k – $11.5k |
| 6 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $2.2k | $2.6k | $1.4k | 54% | 8–80 | $914 – $5.1k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Arizona Phoenix, AZ | $2.0k | $2.1k | $664 | 32% | 7–70 | $1.0k – $12.4k |
| 8 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.9k | $2.2k | $1.1k | 50% | 6–60 | $914 – $3.9k |
| 9 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Madison, WI | $5.2k | $5.5k | $1.0k | 19% | 6–60 | $3.3k – $7.7k |
| 10 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $1.4k | $1.4k | $80 | 6% | 6–60 | $679 – $1.5k |
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