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
Laryngoscopy Exc Tum&/Stripping Cords/Epiglott
Based on 356–2,570 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$110
Average
$4.6k
Median
$4.2k
High
$32.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $32.0k | $32.1k | $21.8k | 68% | 139–400 | $2.0k – $80.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $18.9k | $20.3k | $12.7k | 62% | 52–520 | $2.7k – $39.4k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $10.2k | $15.4k | $12.9k | 84% | 41–410 | $1.8k – $44.0k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $3.8k | $5.1k | $5.4k | 106% | 28–280 | $1.1k – $29.5k |
| 5 | University Health Shreveport, Llc Shreveport, LA | $3.5k | $3.3k | $2.1k | 63% | 9–90 | $550 – $8.6k |
| 6 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $3.6k | $3.5k | $3.1k | 90% | 6–60 | $161 – $11.2k |
| 7 | MVHS, Inc. Utica, NY | $20 | $1.5k | $2.6k | 169% | 6–60 | $20 – $13.4k |
| 8 | Community Medical Center Toms River, NJ | $4.1k | $4.8k | $1.9k | 40% | 5–50 | $206 – $9.1k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $3.5k | $3.1k | $1.5k | 48% | 4–40 | $195 – $7.1k |
| 10 | Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire 54703-5270 | $1.3k | $1.6k | $757 | 48% | 4–40 | $77 – $4.1k |
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