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
HC EXPLORATORY LAPAROTOMY CELIOTOMY W/WO BIOPSY SPX
Based on 477–2,079 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$92
Average
$5.5k
Median
$3.9k
High
$46.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $12.4k | $12.6k | $3.5k | 28% | 151 | $8.1k – $30.4k |
| 2 | The University of Kansas Health System Great Bend Campus Bend, KS | $919 | $873 | $917 | 105% | 149–158 | $232 – $14.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $12.9k | $15.1k | $11.7k | 77% | 52–520 | $1.8k – $57.8k |
| 4 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $38.1k | $43.9k | $29.6k | 67% | 51–510 | $5.9k – $108.0k |
| 5 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $14.8k | $16.6k | $10.0k | 60% | 37–370 | $3.7k – $29.5k |
| 6 | St. Charles Redmond Redmond, OR | $3.4k | $4.3k | $3.7k | 85% | 4–40 | $544 – $10.2k |
| 7 | St. Charles Bend Bend, OR | $3.4k | $4.3k | $3.7k | 85% | 4–40 | $544 – $10.2k |
| 8 | Mount Graham Regional Medical Center Safford, AZ | $2.2k | $2.2k | — | — | 3–30 | $2.2k – $2.2k |
| 9 | Eisenhower Medical Center Rancho Mirage, CA | $523 | $678 | $400 | 59% | 3–30 | $279 – $1.7k |
| 10 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $1.7k | $1.1k | $738 | 67% | 3–30 | $37 – $1.9k |
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