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
Biopsy Oropharynx
Low
$65
Average
$2.9k
Median
$1.8k
High
$43.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $11.8k | $12.8k | $7.1k | 55% | 47–470 | $1.6k – $23.7k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $17.2k | $21.5k | $10.6k | 49% | 39–390 | $6.9k – $37.6k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $23.9k | $22.8k | $12.2k | 54% | 33–330 | $4.2k – $37.3k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $23.1k | $23.2k | $7.1k | 31% | 31–310 | $6.3k – $34.4k |
| 5 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $1.9k | $1.9k | $791 | 42% | 12–120 | $499 – $3.1k |
| 6 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $860 | $1.2k | $600 | 52% | 10–100 | $441 – $2.4k |
| 7 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $815 | $1.1k | $569 | 52% | 10–100 | $418 – $2.2k |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $917 | $957 | $547 | 57% | 8–80 | $434 – $9.3k |
| 9 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $3.7k | $3.7k | $700 | 19% | 4–40 | $2.9k – $4.4k |
| 10 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority Madison, WI | $2.9k | $3.0k | $540 | 18% | 4–40 | $2.1k – $4.2k |
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