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
REMOVAL OF FOREIGN BODIES FROM ESOPHAGUS USING A RIGID ENDOSCOPE
Low
$0
Average
$2.4k
Median
$1.9k
High
$35k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $1.9k | $2.5k | $1.1k | 44% | 3–30 | $1.0k – $4.6k |
| 2 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $5.9k | $5.9k | $755 | 13% | 2–20 | $5.2k – $6.7k |
| 3 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $1.9k | $2.1k | $601 | 29% | 1–10 | $1.7k – $3.8k |
| 4 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Ozark, MO | $5.8k | $4.2k | $2.6k | 62% | 1–10 | $1.2k – $11.2k |
| 5 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $2.1k | $2.1k | $58 | 3% | 1–10 | $2.1k – $2.3k |
| 6 | Inova Loudoun Hospital Leesburg, VA | $1.5k | $1.5k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.5k – $1.5k |
| 7 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $5.8k | $4.2k | $2.6k | 62% | 1–10 | $1.2k – $11.2k |
| 8 | Upstate University Hospital Syracuse, NY | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 9 | Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles Angeles, CA | $286 | $4.6k | $8.5k | 185% | 1–10 | $140 – $30.3k |
| 10 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $5.3k | $5.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $5.3k – $5.3k |
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