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
Probing Canaliculi Lacrimal|BILATERAL PROCEDURE
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 520–3,958 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$22
Average
$1.3k
Median
$597
High
$241.7k
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| 1 | Massachusetts Eye and Ear Boston, MA | $355 | $344 | $49 | 14% | 84–228 | $252 – $486 |
| 2 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $315 | $571 | $1.0k | 176% | 75–120 | $0 – $12.5k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $20.0k | $20.9k | $11.1k | 53% | 59–590 | $217 – $39.2k |
| 4 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $22.5k | $25.9k | $16.2k | 63% | 52–520 | $3.6k – $51.5k |
| 5 | University of Virginia Medical Center Charlottesville, VA | $318 | $475 | $385 | 81% | 45–450 | $88 – $1.9k |
| 6 | Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital DeKalb, IL | $7.1k | $6.5k | $3.8k | 58% | 41–410 | $840 – $12.2k |
| 7 | Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital Geneva, IL | $9.2k | $12.6k | $10.2k | 81% | 41–410 | $690 – $31.9k |
| 8 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $11.7k | $20.1k | $15.3k | 76% | 30–300 | $3.3k – $46.5k |
| 9 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $514 | $651 | $648 | 99% | 15–150 | $179 – $4.3k |
| 10 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $291 | $368 | $193 | 52% | 12–120 | $146 – $1.3k |
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