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
Surg Clsr Tracheostomy/Fistula W/O Plastic Rpr
Based on 65–650 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$88
Average
$3.9k
Median
$3.5k
High
$32.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $15.7k | $18.6k | $11.3k | 61% | 30–300 | $2.0k – $32.6k |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $2.9k | $3.9k | $2.0k | 51% | 5–50 | $1.5k – $7.9k |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $791 | $1.2k | $1.7k | 138% | 3–30 | $88 – $11.4k |
| 4 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $3.0k | $5.4k | $5.9k | 109% | 3–30 | $250 – $21.6k |
| 5 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Madison, WI | $6.6k | $6.3k | $2.3k | 37% | 3–30 | $3.4k – $10.7k |
| 6 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $6.1k | $6.3k | $1.5k | 24% | 2–20 | $3.6k – $9.8k |
| 7 | University Hospital & Clinics, Inc. Lafayette, LA | $2.9k | $2.8k | $1.9k | 67% | 2–20 | $359 – $7.5k |
| 8 | Methodist University Hospital MEMPHIS, TN | $3.0k | $2.8k | $1.2k | 42% | 2–20 | $250 – $6.2k |
| 9 | Hh Health System Dekalb Regional Payne, AL | $3.8k | $3.8k | — | — | 2–20 | $3.8k – $3.8k |
| 10 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $4.3k | $5.7k | $4.8k | 85% | 2–20 | $931 – $15.5k |
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