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 REMOVE PHARYNX FOREIGN BODY
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 68–464 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$23
Average
$1.1k
Median
$627
High
$11.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.0k | $1.0k | $263 | 25% | 24 | $674 – $2.3k |
| 2 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $425 | $409 | $158 | 39% | 4–40 | $56 – $621 |
| 3 | WRMC Hospital Operating Corporation North Wilkesboro, NC | $905 | $841 | $358 | 43% | 4–40 | $332 – $1.6k |
| 4 | Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC | $140 | $168 | $98 | 58% | 3–30 | $59 – $499 |
| 5 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $175 | $176 | $43 | 25% | 2–20 | $107 – $255 |
| 6 | The Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc Macon, GA | $337 | $466 | $758 | 163% | 2–20 | $118 – $5.8k |
| 7 | Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc Lodi, CA | $182 | $285 | $216 | 76% | 2–20 | $35 – $1.2k |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $903 | $860 | $197 | 23% | 2–20 | $87 – $4.4k |
| 9 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $439 | $383 | $253 | 66% | 2–20 | $25 – $1.1k |
| 10 | Novant Health Matthews Medical Center LLC Matthews, NC | $446 | $641 | $321 | 50% | 2–20 | $434 – $1.2k |
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