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 MYRINGOTOMY W/ ASPIR AND/OR EUSTACHIAN TUBE INFLATION REQ AN
Prices here combine facility and professional fees. See them separately →Experimental
Based on 349–3,004 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$82
Average
$3.9k
Median
$3.6k
High
$33.6k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA | $2.4k | $2.4k | $454 | 19% | 54 | $1.2k – $3.1k |
| 2 | Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital Winfield, IL | $11.2k | $12.4k | $7.6k | 61% | 52–520 | $1.7k – $24.3k |
| 3 | Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL | $30.2k | $33.6k | $27.3k | 81% | 50–500 | $4.5k – $103.4k |
| 4 | Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, IL | $3.5k | $6.0k | $4.6k | 76% | 30–300 | $1.1k – $13.8k |
| 5 | Northern Illinois Medical Center DBA Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital McHenry, IL | $12.8k | $15.6k | $8.9k | 57% | 30–300 | $4.5k – $36.2k |
| 6 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $3.1k | $3.0k | $1.3k | 44% | 14–140 | $1.6k – $7.2k |
| 7 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $3.1k | $3.0k | $1.3k | 44% | 14–140 | $1.6k – $7.2k |
| 8 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $378 | $491 | $888 | 181% | 13–130 | $90 – $11.4k |
| 9 | Oregon Health & Science University PORTLAND, OR | $2.8k | $4.9k | $2.9k | 60% | 9–90 | $2.8k – $9.0k |
| 10 | St Vincent Hospital Of The Hospital Sisters Of The Third Order Of St Francis Green Bay, WI | $2.1k | $6.4k | $6.1k | 94% | 6–60 | $2.1k – $15.0k |
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