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
Gastrotomy W/Exploration/Foreign Body Removal
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 48–480 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$76
Average
$5.2k
Median
$3.3k
High
$94.8k
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| 1 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $12.8k | $21.4k | $15.8k | 74% | 28–280 | $2.1k – $47.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $33.3k | $33.5k | $14.1k | 42% | 19–190 | $11.1k – $47.5k |
| 3 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $462 | $515 | $176 | 34% | 1–10 | $358 – $1.1k |
| 4 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $1.2k | $2.2k | $1.4k | 63% | — | $1.2k – $4.1k |
| 5 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $2.3k | $2.3k | — | — | — | $2.3k – $2.3k |
| 6 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $6.4k | $6.0k | $1.7k | 28% | — | $2.0k – $7.1k |
| 7 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $7.9k | $7.9k | — | — | — | $7.9k – $7.9k |
| 8 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $752 | $796 | $113 | 14% | — | $657 – $1.1k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1.8k | $1.9k | $1.4k | 74% | — | $513 – $6.2k |
| 10 | Aurora Medical Center Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant, WI | $18.4k | $19.3k | $2.7k | 14% | — | $14.5k – $25.7k |
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