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
Low
$33
Average
$964
Median
$457
High
$51.1k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $2.8k | $5.7k | $6.0k | 105% | 33–330 | $159 – $16.1k |
| 2 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $343 | $365 | $98 | 27% | 30–300 | $141 – $548 |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $751 | $4.3k | $7.6k | 176% | 29–290 | $51 – $24.2k |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $182 | $241 | $125 | 52% | 26–260 | $90 – $494 |
| 5 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Bermuda Run, NC | $172 | $229 | $118 | 52% | 26–260 | $85 – $468 |
| 6 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Charlotte, NC | $398 | $413 | $205 | 50% | 23–230 | $79 – $765 |
| 7 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Concord, NC | $408 | $419 | $198 | 47% | 18–180 | $97 – $750 |
| 8 | Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc Lodi, CA | $257 | $266 | $143 | 54% | 16–160 | $74 – $624 |
| 9 | Atrium Health Hospitals Inc Shelby, NC | $440 | $434 | $199 | 46% | 16–160 | $110 – $750 |
| 10 | The Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Authority Charlotte, NC | $394 | $404 | $203 | 50% | 14–140 | $79 – $726 |
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