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
Exc/Dstrj Lingual Tonsil Any Method Spx
Based on 145–1,450 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$114
Average
$6.3k
Median
$5.8k
High
$55.5k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $20.1k | $22.1k | $12.0k | 54% | 38–380 | $3.9k – $44.7k |
| 2 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $51.1k | $55.5k | $36.3k | 65% | 37–370 | $3.6k – $102.2k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $12.0k | $20.2k | $14.8k | 73% | 28–280 | $3.6k – $44.7k |
| 4 | Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN | $1.2k | $2.9k | $3.3k | 114% | 6–60 | $0 – $12.9k |
| 5 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $5.2k | $8.5k | $5.7k | 67% | 4–40 | $5.1k – $18.2k |
| 6 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $5.3k | $4.3k | $2.4k | 55% | 3–30 | $297 – $11.2k |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $2.2k | $2.3k | $1.4k | 62% | 3–30 | $220 – $24.1k |
| 8 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $6.0k | $5.5k | $3.4k | 62% | 3–30 | $168 – $15.1k |
| 9 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $5.3k | $4.3k | $2.4k | 55% | 3–30 | $297 – $11.2k |
| 10 | Mercy Health St Vincent Medical Center Llc Toledo, OH | $5.8k | $5.8k | $40 | 1% | 2–20 | $5.8k – $5.9k |
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