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
Laparoscopic Appendectomy
Low
$220
Average
$10.4k
Median
$6.3k
High
$107.9k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $31.0k | $33.2k | $18.2k | 55% | 4,371 | $3.0k – $70.4k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $32.4k | $32.2k | $15.5k | 48% | 2,156 | $425 – $63.3k |
| 3 | West Kendall Baptist Hospital MIAMI, FL | $9.9k | $10.1k | $3.0k | 30% | 891–999 | $2.5k – $21.7k |
| 4 | Baptist Hospital Of Miami MIAMI, FL | $11.1k | $11.7k | $4.5k | 39% | 690–906 | $173 – $24.3k |
| 5 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $38.7k | $36.9k | $16.1k | 44% | 588 | $7.1k – $60.5k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $45.7k | $37.7k | $14.6k | 39% | 561 | $7.1k – $72.7k |
| 7 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $24.5k | $28.1k | $13.9k | 50% | 500 | $7.1k – $51.0k |
| 8 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $39.2k | $39.7k | $15.2k | 38% | 500 | $700 – $70.8k |
| 9 | South Miami Hospital SOUTH MIAMI, FL | $9.9k | $11.1k | $4.9k | 44% | 483–780 | $2.5k – $21.8k |
| 10 | St Johns Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Springfield, IL | $25.5k | $23.4k | $4.2k | 18% | 276–420 | $3.3k – $27.8k |
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