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
Drainage External Ear Abscess/Hematoma Comp
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 132–1,104 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$67
Average
$2.4k
Median
$2.1k
High
$12.4k
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| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5.3k | $7.2k | $5.5k | 77% | 52–520 | $759 – $19.0k |
| 2 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $1.3k | $1.3k | $271 | 20% | 24 | $864 – $2.3k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.2k | $6.9k | $6.0k | 86% | 19–190 | $993 – $19.0k |
| 4 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $1.9k | $2.6k | $1.4k | 52% | 4–40 | $891 – $5.7k |
| 5 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $2.7k | $2.9k | $1.5k | 51% | 4–40 | $33 – $5.1k |
| 6 | Dignity Health Merced, CA | $2.1k | $2.9k | $4.2k | 143% | 3–30 | $132 – $14.4k |
| 7 | Springhill Memorial Hospital Mobile, AL | $1.2k | $1.3k | $124 | 9% | 3–30 | $1.2k – $1.5k |
| 8 | Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton Carrollton, GA | $1.7k | $1.9k | $447 | 23% | 3–30 | $1.6k – $2.9k |
| 9 | The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital TORRINGTON, CT | $675 | $1.1k | $1.1k | 97% | 2–20 | $239 – $3.8k |
| 10 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $1.2k | $1.9k | $1.9k | 95% | 2–20 | $0 – $6.5k |
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