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
$216
Average
$6.3k
Median
$3.8k
High
$59.7k
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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 | $13.8k | $13.0k | $5.0k | 38% | 1,352 | $3.0k – $20.1k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $14.7k | $14.4k | $4.9k | 34% | 1,023 | $3.6k – $22.1k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $15.9k | $18.0k | $8.6k | 47% | 984 | $3.6k – $35.3k |
| 5 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $8.9k | $9.1k | $1.2k | 14% | 160–205 | $206 – $15.1k |
| 6 | East Georgia Regional Medical Center LLC Statesboro, GA | $9.6k | $10.1k | $8.1k | 80% | 135–162 | $275 – $22.7k |
| 7 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $14.0k | $17.1k | $6.1k | 36% | 130–166 | $5.5k – $35.5k |
| 8 | Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters Norfolk, VA | $5.9k | $5.2k | $2.4k | 46% | 126–144 | $2.2k – $8.3k |
| 9 | Mayo Clinic Health System Eau Claire 54703-5270 | $1.2k | $1.6k | $697 | 44% | 119–263 | $99 – $6.4k |
| 10 | Arkansas Childrens Hospital Little Rock, AR | $1.7k | $1.7k | $71 | 4% | 112–130 | $1.4k – $5.6k |
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