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
OPERATIVE LARYNGOSCOPY
Low
$0
Average
$3.9k
Median
$3.7k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | La Porte Hospital Company LLC La Porte, IN | $3.9k | $4.9k | $6.0k | 122% | 52–115 | $1.5k – $34.9k |
| 2 | Hartford Hospital HARTFORD, CT | $1.5k | $1.5k | $15 | 1% | 30–48 | $1.5k – $1.6k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.4k | $5.4k | — | — | 27 | $5.4k – $5.4k |
| 4 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $3.7k | $3.1k | $1.2k | 38% | 23–104 | $1.5k – $7.1k |
| 5 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $3.7k | $3.1k | $1.2k | 38% | 23–104 | $1.5k – $7.1k |
| 6 | Mercy Health Hackley Campus Muskegon, MI | $3.9k | $3.9k | $1.2k | 30% | 19–82 | $2.1k – $6.2k |
| 7 | Methodist University Hospital MEMPHIS, TN | $3.4k | $3.4k | $268 | 8% | 19–91 | $2.4k – $4.4k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $1.6k | $1.9k | $478 | 25% | 10–100 | $1.6k – $2.6k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $3.1k | $2.7k | $1.2k | 44% | 10–100 | $302 – $3.8k |
| 10 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $3.5k | $3.0k | $726 | 24% | 10–100 | $1.9k – $3.5k |
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