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
Low
$98
Average
$5.9k
Median
$6.1k
High
$26.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX | $330 | $352 | $58 | 17% | 2–20 | $294 – $478 |
| 2 | St Johns Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Springfield, IL | $3.5k | $3.5k | — | — | 1–10 | $3.5k – $3.5k |
| 3 | Dignity Health Bakersfield, CA | $460 | $3.4k | $4.5k | 132% | 1–10 | $460 – $17.8k |
| 4 | St Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Ypsilanti, MI | $217 | $410 | $885 | 216% | 1–10 | $33 – $5.3k |
| 5 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $6.3k | $6.8k | $3.2k | 47% | — | $977 – $12.1k |
| 6 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $6.7k | $6.7k | $995 | 15% | — | $5.7k – $7.7k |
| 7 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $7.8k | $8.3k | $1.4k | 17% | — | $6.9k – $10.7k |
| 8 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $5.6k | $5.7k | $243 | 4% | — | $5.6k – $6.2k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $1.5k | $2.1k | $2.6k | 122% | — | $418 – $14.3k |
| 10 | Mayo Regional Hospital Dover Foxcroft, ME | $471 | $492 | $383 | 78% | — | $93 – $1.2k |
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