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 Nasopharynx Visible Lesion Simple
Based on 137–1,370 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$72
Average
$3.5k
Median
$3.1k
High
$35.5k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $12.9k | $17.6k | $14.3k | 81% | 41–410 | $690 – $44.8k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $21.2k | $25.4k | $14.4k | 56% | 38–380 | $3.1k – $44.7k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $5.7k | $9.9k | $7.4k | 75% | 30–300 | $2.1k – $22.7k |
| 4 | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA | $2.3k | $2.6k | $972 | 38% | 6–60 | $1.3k – $3.9k |
| 5 | Hartford Hospital HARTFORD, CT | $1.4k | $3.3k | $2.4k | 72% | 2–20 | $1.4k – $7.7k |
| 6 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $867 | $929 | $613 | 66% | 2–20 | $88 – $4.4k |
| 7 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $6.1k | $6.3k | $1.5k | 24% | 2–20 | $3.6k – $9.8k |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Florida Jacksonville, FL | $13.6k | $11.4k | $4.2k | 37% | 2–20 | $2.4k – $13.6k |
| 9 | Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA | $1.7k | $1.7k | $1.3k | 76% | 2–20 | $396 – $3.0k |
| 10 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $3.0k | $3.0k | $2.9k | 98% | 1–10 | $86 – $11.4k |
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