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
Laparoscopy appendectomy
Low
$0
Average
$7.6k
Median
$6.6k
High
$109.8k
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| 1 | Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, VA | $9.9k | $9.3k | $4.0k | 43% | 519–591 | $3.5k – $16.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5.0k | $5.5k | $540 | 10% | 465 | $5.0k – $6.1k |
| 3 | Inova Loudoun Hospital Leesburg, VA | $6.0k | $8.8k | $4.3k | 49% | 216–297 | $3.5k – $15.7k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $6.1k | $5.7k | $606 | 11% | 200 | $700 – $7.8k |
| 5 | Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria, VA | $9.9k | $9.2k | $3.9k | 42% | 157–220 | $3.5k – $15.5k |
| 6 | Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Fairfax, VA | $9.9k | $9.3k | $4.2k | 45% | 148–220 | $3.5k – $15.8k |
| 7 | St Luke's Regional Medical Center, LTD Boise, ID | $6.5k | $7.3k | $1.7k | 23% | 142–196 | $6.5k – $17.5k |
| 8 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $5.5k | $5.6k | $261 | 5% | 140 | $5.5k – $7.8k |
| 9 | City Hospital, Inc. Martinsburg, WV | $6.2k | $6.9k | $1.5k | 22% | 112 | $206 – $10.2k |
| 10 | Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, MO | $5.9k | $6.0k | $2.1k | 34% | 106–187 | $1.2k – $13.5k |
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