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
Low
$0
Average
$3.7k
Median
$3.4k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $4.4k | $3.8k | $922 | 24% | 10–100 | $2.4k – $4.4k |
| 2 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $3.8k | $3.7k | $1.3k | 36% | 6–60 | $1.0k – $5.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | 5–50 | $1.1k – $1.1k |
| 4 | MVHS, Inc. Utica, NY | $4.7k | $5.2k | $1.9k | 37% | 5–50 | $4.1k – $13.4k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $4.5k | $4.5k | — | — | 5–50 | $4.5k – $4.5k |
| 6 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $3.7k | $3.1k | $1.2k | 39% | 2–20 | $1.5k – $7.1k |
| 7 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $3.7k | $3.1k | $1.2k | 39% | 2–20 | $1.5k – $7.1k |
| 8 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $3.6k | $3.6k | — | — | 2–20 | $3.6k – $3.6k |
| 9 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $6.1k | $6.1k | $102 | 2% | 2–20 | $6.0k – $6.2k |
| 10 | Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Hartford, CT | $15.5k | $13.6k | $4.1k | 30% | 2–20 | $4.1k – $15.5k |
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