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
HB Drainage of Gland Abscess
Based on 1,011–9,894 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$23
Average
$961
Median
$474
High
$11.4k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $2.8k | $5.4k | $5.9k | 109% | 37–370 | $159 – $16.1k |
| 2 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $256 | $299 | $297 | 99% | 34–340 | $0 – $1.8k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $807 | $4.3k | $7.5k | 176% | 32–320 | $51 – $24.2k |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $182 | $311 | $519 | 167% | 26–260 | $90 – $4.1k |
| 5 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $195 | $247 | $216 | 87% | 26–260 | $85 – $1.7k |
| 6 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $896 | $914 | $264 | 29% | 24 | $586 – $2.3k |
| 7 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Charlotte, NC | $354 | $366 | $211 | 58% | 24–240 | $69 – $765 |
| 8 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Concord, NC | $354 | $370 | $206 | 56% | 20–200 | $69 – $750 |
| 9 | Capital Health System Inc Pennington, NJ | $252 | $857 | $1.4k | 164% | 20–200 | $38 – $6.5k |
| 10 | Atrium Health Hospitals Inc Shelby, NC | $394 | $391 | $216 | 55% | 18–180 | $69 – $872 |
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