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
PR I&D ABSCESS PERITONSILLAR
Based on 627–6,054 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$23
Average
$1.1k
Median
$602
High
$20.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $225 | $643 | $1.1k | 178% | 35–350 | $65 – $6.5k |
| 2 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $212 | $350 | $519 | 149% | 30–300 | $104 – $4.1k |
| 3 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $297 | $409 | $349 | 85% | 30–300 | $0 – $1.8k |
| 4 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.1k | $1.1k | $263 | 23% | 24 | $732 – $2.3k |
| 5 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $495 | $463 | $225 | 49% | 18–180 | $31 – $927 |
| 6 | Fairview Health Services Burnsville, MN | $300 | $410 | $282 | 69% | 17–170 | $58 – $1.6k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $225 | $303 | $281 | 93% | 16–160 | $99 – $1.7k |
| 8 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $245 | $397 | $286 | 72% | 14–140 | $29 – $1.6k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $355 | $412 | $268 | 65% | 13–130 | $58 – $1.6k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Wyoming, MN | $316 | $410 | $284 | 69% | 11–110 | $58 – $1.6k |
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