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
Low
$0
Average
$5.7k
Median
$5.6k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $2.3k | $2.1k | $263 | 12% | 520 | $1.7k – $4.0k |
| 2 | Longview Medical Center LP Longview, TX | $2.2k | $3.7k | $2.1k | 57% | 343–379 | $279 – $24.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $3.0k | $2.8k | $349 | 13% | 330 | $2.3k – $3.0k |
| 4 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $6.0k | $8.1k | $4.2k | 52% | 203–266 | $3.1k – $16.2k |
| 5 | La Porte Hospital Company LLC La Porte, IN | $6.2k | $7.2k | $6.2k | 87% | 165–183 | $243 – $35.8k |
| 6 | St Josephs Hospital Health Center Syracuse, NY | $16.1k | $12.7k | $4.6k | 36% | 155–353 | $96 – $16.1k |
| 7 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $3.4k | $3.4k | — | — | 123 | $3.4k – $9.1k |
| 8 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $5.7k | $6.3k | $1.8k | 29% | 122 | $448 – $11.8k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $5.8k | $4.4k | $2.3k | 51% | 119–164 | $1.6k – $11.2k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $5.8k | $4.4k | $2.3k | 51% | 119–164 | $1.6k – $11.2k |
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