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
Thyroidectomy Substernal Cervical Approach
Low
$340
Average
$8.9k
Median
$4.5k
High
$133.2k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $27.5k | $30.1k | $17.0k | 57% | 45–450 | $3.8k – $55.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $58.1k | $63.9k | $35.4k | 55% | 35–350 | $14.6k – $145.2k |
| 3 | Palos Community Hospital Palos Heights, IL | $44.3k | $42.6k | $23.3k | 55% | 33–330 | $4.2k – $70.1k |
| 4 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $32.9k | $36.9k | $15.9k | 43% | 25–250 | $14.1k – $73.2k |
| 5 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Hackensack, NJ | $9.8k | $9.1k | $3.2k | 35% | 4–40 | $2.3k – $12.4k |
| 6 | Hmh Hospitals Corporation Neptune City, NJ | $10.8k | $9.8k | $3.1k | 31% | 4–40 | $2.1k – $12.7k |
| 7 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $29.4k | $29.4k | — | — | 4–40 | $29.4k – $29.4k |
| 8 | Hartford Hospital HARTFORD, CT | $27.8k | $29.8k | $5.9k | 20% | 3–30 | $23.8k – $37.7k |
| 9 | Saint Luke’s South Hospital, Inc Overland Park, KS | $15.2k | $15.2k | $3.5k | 23% | 2–20 | $11.7k – $18.6k |
| 10 | Parkland Health Dallas, TX | $10.5k | $15.8k | $10.7k | 68% | 2–20 | $4.5k – $40.5k |
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