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
$143
Average
$5.5k
Median
$3.1k
High
$52.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $33.7k | $34.2k | $21.2k | 62% | 136–370 | $2.2k – $80.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $19.7k | $22.0k | $12.2k | 55% | 47–470 | $2.7k – $39.4k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $23.7k | $22.5k | $11.2k | 50% | 26–260 | $2.7k – $44.0k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $5.4k | $6.1k | $5.8k | 95% | 21–210 | $1.4k – $29.5k |
| 5 | Community Medical Center Toms River, NJ | $9.1k | $9.1k | — | — | 5–50 | $9.1k – $9.1k |
| 6 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $16.4k | $16.4k | — | — | 4–40 | $16.4k – $16.4k |
| 7 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $5.6k | $5.1k | $1.6k | 31% | 3–30 | $1.2k – $6.5k |
| 8 | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA | $3.6k | $3.3k | $455 | 14% | 3–30 | $2.6k – $3.6k |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $2.5k | $2.5k | $237 | 10% | 2–20 | $1.2k – $7.0k |
| 10 | St Johns Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Springfield, IL | $9.2k | $9.2k | $5.2k | 57% | 2–20 | $4.0k – $14.4k |
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