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
HC DRAIN EXTERNAL EAR/ABSCESS/HEMATOMA SIMPLE
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 323–3,014 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$23
Average
$1.2k
Median
$889
High
$10.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.0k | $1.0k | $263 | 25% | 24 | $670 – $2.3k |
| 2 | Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, PA | $773 | $875 | $854 | 98% | 24–240 | $43 – $3.4k |
| 3 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $682 | $589 | $373 | 63% | 17–170 | $0 – $1.4k |
| 4 | Albany Medical Center Hospital Albany, NY | $198 | $481 | $751 | 156% | 14–140 | $55 – $4.0k |
| 5 | Fairview Health Services Minneapolis, MN | $742 | $927 | $938 | 101% | 11–110 | $54 – $8.9k |
| 6 | Samaritan Medical Center Watertown, NY | $884 | $889 | $881 | 99% | 9–90 | $107 – $4.1k |
| 7 | Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc Lodi, CA | $216 | $584 | $1.1k | 189% | 6–60 | $15 – $7.9k |
| 8 | Fairview Health Services Burnsville, MN | $700 | $816 | $500 | 61% | 6–60 | $54 – $2.9k |
| 9 | Capital Health System Inc Pennington, NJ | $797 | $1.6k | $1.7k | 107% | 6–60 | $31 – $6.5k |
| 10 | The Carle Foundation Hospital Urbana, IL | $759 | $693 | $379 | 55% | 6–60 | $105 – $1.2k |
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