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
Appendectomy
Based on 64–640 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$106
Average
$6.7k
Median
$6.4k
High
$64.8k
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| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $19.1k | $21.4k | $13.1k | 61% | 37–370 | $4.2k – $38.3k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $10.3k | $9.9k | $649 | 7% | 3–30 | $9.0k – $10.3k |
| 3 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $7.7k | $7.6k | $3.0k | 39% | 3–30 | $1.4k – $16.8k |
| 4 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $7.6k | $7.5k | $3.0k | 40% | 2–20 | $1.2k – $14.6k |
| 5 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $372 | $419 | $144 | 34% | 2–20 | $294 – $915 |
| 6 | St. John Medical Center Longview, WA | $8.1k | $14.1k | $14.1k | 100% | 1–10 | $3.1k – $54.8k |
| 7 | Community Hospital Of San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA | $6.8k | $5.3k | $4.0k | 75% | 1–10 | $460 – $15.5k |
| 8 | St Marys Hospital Medical Center Of Green Bay Inc Hospital Sisters GREEN BAY, WI | $8.6k | $8.6k | — | — | 1–10 | $8.6k – $8.6k |
| 9 | Renown Regional Medical Center Reno, NV | $7.1k | $6.4k | $4.9k | 77% | 1–10 | $607 – $16.6k |
| 10 | Foley Hospital Company LLC Foley, AL | $7.7k | $64.8k | $78.9k | 122% | 1–10 | $441 – $197.2k |
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