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
$136
Average
$6.2k
Median
$3.2k
High
$67.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $15.6k | $16.8k | $9.3k | 55% | 1,826 | $1.7k – $38.8k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $13.6k | $13.9k | $8.5k | 61% | 1,551 | $1.6k – $38.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $12.2k | $10.8k | $5.9k | 54% | 462 | $3.2k – $19.1k |
| 4 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $16.7k | $16.1k | $8.5k | 53% | 396 | $4.2k – $26.2k |
| 5 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $15.2k | $13.9k | $6.5k | 47% | 364 | $2.7k – $24.3k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $15.0k | $15.0k | $4.6k | 31% | 341 | $4.1k – $22.3k |
| 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 | $14.4k | $16.1k | $7.1k | 44% | 24–240 | $6.2k – $32.0k |
| 9 | Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark, NJ | $4.6k | $10.8k | $7.7k | 71% | 12–120 | $2.6k – $19.9k |
| 10 | Samaritan Hospital Troy, NY | $840 | $850 | $15 | 2% | 12–120 | $420 – $860 |
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