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 I&D PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS
Low
$0
Average
$726
Median
$307
High
$17.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $231 | $253 | $121 | 48% | 13–130 | $151 – $517 |
| 2 | Fairview Health Services Burnsville, MN | $242 | $266 | $63 | 24% | 11–110 | $195 – $365 |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Wyoming, MN | $200 | $198 | $77 | 39% | 10–100 | $116 – $321 |
| 4 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $260 | $200 | $126 | 63% | 7–70 | $60 – $349 |
| 5 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $0 | $250 | $423 | 169% | 5–50 | $0 – $1.4k |
| 6 | Childrens Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO | $336 | $484 | $256 | 53% | 4–40 | $336 – $927 |
| 7 | Covenant Medical Center Inc Saginaw, MI | $472 | $472 | — | — | 4–40 | $472 – $472 |
| 8 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $227 | $235 | $84 | 36% | 3–30 | $113 – $474 |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $243 | $360 | $373 | 104% | 3–30 | $233 – $2.4k |
| 10 | Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Boston, MA | $236 | $226 | $14 | 6% | 3–30 | $206 – $236 |
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