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
HC DRAIN ABCESS OF PALATE UVULA
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 73–514 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$23
Average
$1.1k
Median
$531
High
$13.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $896 | $914 | $264 | 29% | 24 | $586 – $2.3k |
| 2 | High Point Regional Health High Point, NC | $175 | $190 | $107 | 56% | 5–50 | $65 – $423 |
| 3 | Dignity Health Mt Shasta, CA | $682 | $490 | $231 | 47% | 4–40 | $113 – $682 |
| 4 | Lafayette County Darlington, WI | $325 | $438 | $589 | 134% | 3–30 | $30 – $2.7k |
| 5 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $353 | $410 | $282 | 69% | 2–20 | $76 – $1.6k |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $151 | $201 | $102 | 51% | 2–20 | $75 – $411 |
| 7 | Dignity Health Carmichael, CA | $336 | $3.1k | $3.7k | 120% | 2–20 | $67 – $12.6k |
| 8 | Dignity Community Care Woodland, CA | $332 | $2.9k | $3.1k | 107% | 2–20 | $67 – $8.0k |
| 9 | Deaconess Health System Henderson Hospital Henderson, KY | $215 | $474 | $708 | 149% | 2–20 | $44 – $3.8k |
| 10 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Concord, NC | $322 | $331 | $196 | 59% | 2–20 | $75 – $693 |
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