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
Excision/Destruction Lesion Pharynx Any Method
Based on 262–2,620 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$87
Average
$3.9k
Median
$3.5k
High
$36.0k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $7.3k | $8.9k | $5.4k | 61% | 52–520 | $1.2k – $17.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $19.6k | $23.7k | $13.2k | 56% | 49–490 | $1.7k – $39.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $14.8k | $18.7k | $13.9k | 75% | 38–380 | $2.7k – $44.3k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $13.7k | $15.3k | $9.3k | 61% | 37–370 | $3.4k – $27.3k |
| 5 | Dignity Health Gilbert, AZ | $3.5k | $2.9k | $1.1k | 36% | 5–50 | $176 – $4.8k |
| 6 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $4.8k | $4.6k | $1.5k | 33% | 5–50 | $113 – $7.9k |
| 7 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $485 | $1.6k | $2.4k | 151% | 4–40 | $88 – $11.4k |
| 8 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $2.8k | $2.5k | $1.2k | 47% | 4–40 | $138 – $6.3k |
| 9 | MVHS, Inc. Utica, NY | $41 | $1.7k | $2.7k | 158% | 4–40 | $41 – $13.4k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $2.8k | $2.5k | $1.2k | 47% | 4–40 | $138 – $6.3k |
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