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
Incision of windpipe for insertion of breathing tube (older than 2 years)
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Low
$72
Average
$4.0k
Median
$3.7k
High
$31.0k
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| 1 | Sonora Community Hospital Sonora, CA | $512 | $796 | $1.4k | 176% | 8–80 | $65 – $8.1k |
| 2 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $3.0k | $3.0k | $1.9k | 63% | 6–60 | $277 – $6.2k |
| 3 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $237 | $1.9k | $2.8k | 148% | 6–60 | $135 – $11.4k |
| 4 | Mercy Health Saint Marys Grand Rapids, MI | $134 | $148 | $115 | 78% | 3–30 | $6 – $549 |
| 5 | Mon Health Medical Center Morgantown, WV | $288 | $386 | $156 | 40% | 3–30 | $248 – $821 |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $862 | $1.3k | $793 | 63% | 2–20 | $439 – $4.1k |
| 7 | Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Inc City, SD | $6.9k | $6.4k | $1.6k | 25% | 2–20 | $2.0k – $8.2k |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $2.3k | $2.2k | $613 | 28% | 1–10 | $102 – $4.4k |
| 9 | Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | 1–10 | $3.4k – $3.4k |
| 10 | Springhill Memorial Hospital Mobile, AL | $1.0k | $1.0k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.0k – $1.0k |
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