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
HB Drainage External Ear Abscess/Hematoma Comp
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Low
$0
Average
$2.1k
Median
$1.8k
High
$11.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $2.2k | $2.2k | — | — | 5–50 | $2.2k – $2.2k |
| 2 | Springhill Memorial Hospital Mobile, AL | $1.2k | $1.3k | $124 | 9% | 3–30 | $1.2k – $1.5k |
| 3 | HealthEast St John's Hospital Maplewood, MN | $1.1k | $1.1k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.1k – $1.1k |
| 4 | Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Inc Milwaukee, WI | $1.3k | $1.3k | — | — | 1–10 | $1.3k – $1.3k |
| 5 | University of Virginia Haymarket Medical Center Haymarket, VA | $4.8k | $4.5k | $571 | 13% | — | $3.3k – $4.8k |
| 6 | OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center Oklahoma City, OK | $1.6k | $1.8k | $532 | 30% | — | $1.6k – $3.3k |
| 7 | San Joaquin Community Hospital Bakersfield, CA | $2.1k | $2.1k | — | — | — | $2.1k – $2.1k |
| 8 | SwedishAmerican Hospital Rockford, IL | $1.8k | $1.8k | $68 | 4% | — | $1.7k – $1.9k |
| 9 | Laird Hospital, Inc. Union, MS | $3.6k | $3.7k | $164 | 4% | — | $3.6k – $4.1k |
| 10 | Henry Ford Health Novi, MI | $250 | $265 | $21 | 8% | — | $250 – $294 |
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