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
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Low
$454
Average
$4.4k
Median
$1.8k
High
$37.0k
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| 1 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $29.8k | $26.8k | $14.6k | 55% | 21–210 | $7.9k – $47.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $33.3k | $33.5k | $14.1k | 42% | 19–190 | $11.1k – $47.5k |
| 3 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | — | $1.1k – $1.1k |
| 4 | St Joseph Regional Health Network Reading, PA | $2.0k | $2.2k | $636 | 29% | — | $1.0k – $3.1k |
| 5 | Deaconess Hospital, Inc Newburgh, IN | $1.9k | $1.8k | $578 | 32% | — | $1.0k – $2.5k |
| 6 | Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City, MO | $1.7k | $1.7k | $246 | 14% | — | $1.4k – $2.1k |
| 7 | Adventist Health Mendocino Coast Bragg, CA | $2.6k | $2.6k | — | — | — | $2.6k – $2.6k |
| 8 | Children's National Hospital Washington, DC | $1.4k | $1.4k | $129 | 9% | — | $1.3k – $1.5k |
| 9 | Gulf Coast Medical Center FORT MYERS, FL | $2.2k | $1.9k | $1.4k | 73% | — | $296 – $3.6k |
| 10 | Northside Hospital, Inc. Lawrenceville, GA | $35k | $37.0k | $10.5k | 28% | — | $18.6k – $50k |
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