CPT 69005
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
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Low
$35
Average
$2.8k
Median
$2.2k
High
$37.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $5.3k | $7.5k | $5.5k | 74% | 47–470 | $759 – $19.0k |
| 2 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $5.2k | $6.9k | $6.0k | 86% | 19–190 | $993 – $19.0k |
| 3 | North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winston Salem, NC | $1.9k | $2.6k | $1.4k | 52% | 4–40 | $891 – $5.7k |
| 4 | Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ | $2.2k | $2.0k | $884 | 44% | 4–40 | $491 – $3.0k |
| 5 | Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton Carrollton, GA | $2.9k | $2.9k | — | — | 3–30 | $2.9k – $2.9k |
| 6 | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, OH | $3.2k | $3.0k | $1.9k | 63% | 2–20 | $220 – $6.5k |
| 7 | Dignity Health Merced, CA | $14.4k | $14.4k | — | — | 2–20 | $14.4k – $14.4k |
| 8 | City Hospital, Inc. Martinsburg, WV | $2.7k | $2.7k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.7k – $2.7k |
| 9 | The Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc Macon, GA | $2.4k | $2.4k | $551 | 23% | 1–10 | $1.0k – $3.2k |
| 10 | Holland Community Hospital Holland, MI | $1.2k | $923 | $454 | 49% | 1–10 | $160 – $1.4k |
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