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
Exploratory Laparotomy Celiotomy W/WO Biopsy Spx
Low
$106
Average
$3.9k
Median
$2.2k
High
$46.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The University of Kansas Health System Great Bend Campus Bend, KS | $919 | $918 | $107 | 12% | 148 | $460 – $972 |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $43.2k | $46.0k | $29.1k | 63% | 48–480 | $6.5k – $108.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $15.4k | $16.4k | $11.5k | 70% | 47–470 | $1.8k – $57.8k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $18.8k | $18.1k | $9.6k | 53% | 33–330 | $4.2k – $29.5k |
| 5 | St. Charles Redmond Redmond, OR | $8.5k | $7.0k | $2.5k | 36% | 4–40 | $3.4k – $10.2k |
| 6 | St. Charles Bend Bend, OR | $8.5k | $7.0k | $2.5k | 36% | 4–40 | $3.4k – $10.2k |
| 7 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $1.7k | $1.1k | $736 | 66% | 3–30 | $134 – $1.9k |
| 8 | Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN | $5.3k | $5.3k | $564 | 11% | 2–20 | $2.5k – $15.6k |
| 9 | West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. Morgantown, WV | $19.7k | $19.7k | — | — | 2–20 | $19.7k – $19.7k |
| 10 | Yuma Regional Medical Center Yuma, AZ | $708 | $1.9k | $1.6k | 81% | 1–10 | $577 – $4.3k |
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