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
Excision Hydrocele Unilateral
Based on 6,449–12,461 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$125
Average
$4.8k
Median
$4.2k
High
$33.8k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $14.6k | $16.1k | $9.3k | 58% | 1,994 | $1.7k – $38.8k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $11.4k | $12.8k | $8.7k | 68% | 1,716 | $1.6k – $38.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $5.6k | $9.0k | $6.1k | 68% | 616 | $2.4k – $19.1k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $8.1k | $10.5k | $7.4k | 71% | 532 | $1.7k – $24.3k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $13.0k | $11.8k | $7.0k | 59% | 451 | $1.5k – $22.3k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $13.1k | $14.8k | $8.8k | 59% | 444 | $3.3k – $26.2k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital Sandwich, IL | $10.3k | $9.3k | $5.3k | 57% | 35–350 | $1.2k – $18.0k |
| 8 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $11.3k | $14.0k | $7.7k | 55% | 30–300 | $4.0k – $32.0k |
| 9 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $3.5k | $3.7k | $1.3k | 35% | 16–43 | $1.0k – $5.7k |
| 10 | Dignity Health San Bernardino, CA | $3.9k | $4.0k | $3.2k | 80% | 16–25 | $342 – $17.0k |
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