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
TONSILLECTOMY & ADENOIDEY
Low
$10
Average
$6.4k
Median
$6.1k
High
$47.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix, AZ | $7.5k | $7.8k | $2.1k | 27% | 574–583 | $4.7k – $11.2k |
| 2 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA | $735 | $668 | $111 | 17% | 334 | $512 – $757 |
| 3 | Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center, Llc Shreveport, LA | $5.5k | $4.3k | $3.4k | 80% | 149–185 | $550 – $13.6k |
| 4 | Ochsner Clinic Foundation Orleans, LA | $5.4k | $4.6k | $3.0k | 66% | 124–133 | $550 – $9.5k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $4.0k | $5.6k | $2.5k | 45% | 123 | $3.6k – $9.1k |
| 6 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL | $1.6k | $2.8k | $2.0k | 70% | 106–133 | $1.5k – $10.7k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $3.8k | $3.8k | $199 | 5% | 104 | $3.6k – $4.0k |
| 8 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $8.5k | $7.3k | $4.1k | 56% | 85–103 | $1.2k – $14.6k |
| 9 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $4.8k | $4.5k | $688 | 15% | 82–91 | $3.1k – $5.8k |
| 10 | Renown Regional Medical Center Reno, NV | $7.2k | $7.1k | $929 | 13% | 60–69 | $5.9k – $15.2k |
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