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
Exc Varicocele/Ligation Veins W/Hernia Rpr
Based on 72–720 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$133
Average
$5.0k
Median
$4.6k
High
$33.7k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $13.0k | $14.6k | $8.8k | 61% | 52–520 | $2.0k – $28.5k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $19.9k | $20.1k | $8.5k | 42% | 19–190 | $6.7k – $28.5k |
| 3 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $6.1k | $6.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $6.1k – $6.1k |
| 4 | St. Anthony Shawnee Hospital, Inc Shawnee, OK | $3.6k | $3.9k | $1.6k | 41% | — | $844 – $6.7k |
| 5 | Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham Needham, MA | $6.7k | $6.7k | $995 | 15% | — | $5.7k – $7.7k |
| 6 | Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery CHRISTIANSBURG, VA | $7.9k | $8.1k | $3.1k | 39% | — | $2.0k – $16.1k |
| 7 | Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, IL | $4.0k | $5.6k | $3.8k | 67% | — | $2.1k – $13.0k |
| 8 | USA Health University Hospital Mobile, AL | $540 | $1.1k | $832 | 78% | — | $529 – $2.8k |
| 9 | Fairview Health Services Edina, MN | $2.1k | $2.6k | $2.0k | 75% | — | $366 – $8.1k |
| 10 | Aurora Medical Center Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant, WI | $10.0k | $9.9k | $1.6k | 16% | — | $8.0k – $15k |
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