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
Drainage Periton Abscess/Local Peritonitis Open
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 58–580 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$87
Average
$5.7k
Median
$3.8k
High
$77.7k
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| 1 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $34.0k | $36.5k | $21.5k | 59% | 30–300 | $1.1k – $84.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $84.6k | $77.7k | $19.4k | 25% | 9–90 | $22.8k – $84.6k |
| 3 | FHN Memorial Hospital Freeport, IL | $1.6k | $1.7k | $1.1k | 63% | 2–20 | $404 – $3.6k |
| 4 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital & Rehab Center - Vallejo VALLEJO, CA | $2.2k | $2.2k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.2k – $2.2k |
| 5 | University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC | $4.8k | $5.4k | $2.7k | 49% | 1–10 | $2.5k – $8.9k |
| 6 | Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital Ste. Genevieve, MO | $1.6k | $1.9k | $1.1k | 56% | 1–10 | $452 – $3.6k |
| 7 | Saint Joseph Health System, Inc London, KY | $2.0k | $2.0k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.0k – $2.0k |
| 8 | Affinity Hospital LLC Birmingham, AL | $19.0k | $19.9k | $14.8k | 74% | 1–10 | $1.4k – $42.8k |
| 9 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Santa Clara SANTA CLARA, CA | $2.2k | $2.2k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.2k – $2.2k |
| 10 | Beebe Medical Center Inc. Lewes, DE | $2.4k | $2.4k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.4k – $2.4k |
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