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 W/EXC OF TUMOR
Low
$1
Average
$5.3k
Median
$4.8k
High
$36.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University Health Shreveport, Llc Shreveport, LA | $3.5k | $3.0k | $2.0k | 68% | 8–80 | $550 – $8.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $1.8k | $1.9k | $93 | 5% | 5–50 | $1.8k – $2.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $2.1k | $2.1k | $112 | 5% | 2–20 | $2.0k – $2.2k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $3.8k | $3.8k | $199 | 5% | 2–20 | $3.6k – $4.0k |
| 5 | Ochsner Clinic Foundation Orleans, LA | $3.4k | $3.5k | $2.7k | 78% | 2–20 | $550 – $9.5k |
| 6 | Bethesda Hospital BOYNTON BEACH, FL | $11.8k | $11.8k | $695 | 6% | 2–20 | $11.2k – $12.5k |
| 7 | Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center, Llc Shreveport, LA | $3.4k | $2.9k | $2.0k | 69% | 2–20 | $550 – $8.5k |
| 8 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $4.4k | $3.9k | $1.7k | 44% | 1–10 | $2.0k – $8.7k |
| 9 | Hh Health System Dekalb Regional Payne, AL | $2.4k | $2.4k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.4k – $2.4k |
| 10 | Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix, AZ | $4.7k | $4.7k | — | — | 1–10 | $4.7k – $4.7k |
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