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
REMOVE THYROID DUCT LESION
Low
$10
Average
$8.0k
Median
$7.1k
High
$37.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St Vincent Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Green Bay, WI | $8.2k | $8.2k | $3.1k | 38% | 4–40 | $5.1k – $11.3k |
| 2 | St Elizabeths Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis O'Fallon, IL | $6.1k | $6.1k | $399 | 7% | 4–40 | $5.7k – $6.5k |
| 3 | University Health Shreveport, Llc Shreveport, LA | $5.5k | $4.9k | $3.6k | 73% | 4–40 | $680 – $13.7k |
| 4 | Renown Regional Medical Center Reno, NV | $10.9k | $10.0k | $2.2k | 22% | 3–30 | $7.0k – $12.0k |
| 5 | University of Florida Health Gainesville, FL | $3.3k | $3.8k | $1.1k | 29% | 3–30 | $3.1k – $7.1k |
| 6 | Phoenix Children's Hospital Phoenix, AZ | $10.1k | $13.8k | $8.5k | 62% | 3–30 | $5.8k – $25.6k |
| 7 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $8.4k | $8.4k | $441 | 5% | 2–20 | $7.9k – $8.8k |
| 8 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $7.4k | $7.4k | $392 | 5% | 2–20 | $7.1k – $7.8k |
| 9 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $6.4k | $6.4k | $1.3k | 20% | 2–20 | $4.1k – $7.9k |
| 10 | Methodist Lebonheur Germantown Hosp GERMANTOWN, TN | $8.8k | $7.8k | $3.7k | 48% | 1–10 | $297 – $11.3k |
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