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 Primary/Secondary <Age 12
Based on 625–4,729 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$114
Average
$6.3k
Median
$5.9k
High
$36.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $11.9k | $13.3k | $6.8k | 51% | 118–208 | $1.3k – $20.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $10.9k | $10.9k | $6.5k | 59% | 52–520 | $1.4k – $20.6k |
| 3 | Methodist Lebonheur Childrens Hosp MEMPHIS, TN | $5.4k | $8.4k | $8.3k | 98% | 43–214 | $297 – $36.8k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $4.5k | $5.9k | $4.0k | 68% | 38–380 | $909 – $13.4k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $8.2k | $9.4k | $5.3k | 56% | 30–300 | $2.5k – $20.4k |
| 6 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $5.5k | $9.5k | $6.6k | 70% | 28–280 | $2.6k – $20.5k |
| 7 | Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix, AZ | $5.8k | $6.6k | $3.0k | 45% | 16–34 | $3.5k – $11.2k |
| 8 | Hospital Authority of Colquitt County Moultrie, GA | $1.0k | $2.2k | $2.4k | 108% | 14–41 | $224 – $8.8k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Rogers dba Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas Vista, AR | $5.4k | $4.7k | $2.2k | 47% | 13–22 | $217 – $10.1k |
| 10 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $5.1k | $7.7k | $3.1k | 41% | 9–90 | $4.9k – $13.2k |
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