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 FOREIGN BODY PHARYNX
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Low
$0
Average
$780
Median
$469
High
$17.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Fairview Health Services Princeton, MN | $687 | $687 | $115 | 17% | 2–20 | $572 – $802 |
| 2 | Tanner Medical Center - Villa Rica Villa Rica, GA | $457 | $455 | $52 | 11% | 2–20 | $340 – $535 |
| 3 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $435 | $435 | — | — | 1–10 | $435 – $435 |
| 4 | Navicent Health Baldwin Inc Milledgeville, GA | $125 | $125 | — | — | 1–10 | $125 – $125 |
| 5 | Community Memorial Hospital Ventura, CA | $575 | $559 | $179 | 32% | 1–10 | $262 – $1.0k |
| 6 | East Georgia Regional Medical Center LLC Statesboro, GA | $479 | $1.2k | $1.3k | 110% | 1–10 | $370 – $3.5k |
| 7 | Northwest Hospital LLC Tucson, AZ | $469 | $786 | $1.0k | 130% | 1–10 | $194 – $3.6k |
| 8 | Sanford Fargo Medical Center Fargo, ND | $146 | $146 | — | — | 1–10 | $146 – $146 |
| 9 | IOM Health System LP Fort Wayne, IN | $591 | $663 | $311 | 47% | 1–10 | $381 – $1.8k |
| 10 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $497 | $497 | — | — | 1–10 | $497 – $497 |
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