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
Low
$0
Average
$4.2k
Median
$3.6k
High
$64.3k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.6k | $2.6k | — | — | 165 | $2.6k – $2.6k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $3.0k | $2.6k | $635 | 24% | 140 | $1.7k – $3.0k |
| 3 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $1.5k | $1.8k | $471 | 25% | 110 | $1.5k – $2.6k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $2.4k | $2.4k | — | — | 110 | $2.4k – $2.4k |
| 5 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.1k | $5.1k | — | — | 42 | $5.1k – $5.1k |
| 6 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $3.3k | $3.3k | — | — | 24 | $3.3k – $3.3k |
| 7 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $3.4k | $3.6k | $2.3k | 64% | 10–100 | $566 – $9.9k |
| 8 | Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Fairfax, VA | $6.0k | $6.9k | $2.2k | 31% | 7–70 | $4.2k – $9.5k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $717 | $717 | — | — | 5–50 | $717 – $717 |
| 10 | Hartford Hospital HARTFORD, CT | $1.5k | $1.5k | $14 | 1% | 5–50 | $1.5k – $1.5k |
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