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
HB Tonsillectomy & Adenoidectomy <Age 12
Based on 16,073–25,046 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$63
Average
$6.1k
Median
$5.8k
High
$36.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $9.5k | $11.3k | $6.6k | 58% | 2,047 | $1.8k – $19.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $9.8k | $9.6k | $6.4k | 67% | 1,976 | $1.7k – $20.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $11.4k | $11.6k | $6.6k | 57% | 1,353 | $2.3k – $22.1k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $13.5k | $15.3k | $9.4k | 62% | 1,230 | $3.4k – $35.3k |
| 5 | Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix, AZ | $7.0k | $6.8k | $2.3k | 33% | 634–643 | $3.5k – $11.2k |
| 6 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $5.1k | $7.3k | $3.3k | 45% | 581–662 | $1.3k – $16.6k |
| 7 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $12.4k | $15.0k | $7.5k | 50% | 526–616 | $5.5k – $35.5k |
| 8 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $5.4k | $8.5k | $8.3k | 99% | 485–647 | $297 – $36.8k |
| 9 | Longview Medical Center LP Longview, TX | $5.9k | $6.2k | $4.8k | 78% | 376–421 | $279 – $24.0k |
| 10 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $735 | $668 | $111 | 17% | 334 | $512 – $757 |
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