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 CREATE EARDRUM OPENING
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Low
$3
Average
$1.1k
Median
$588
High
$13.0k
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| # | Hospital | ||||||
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| 1 | Public Hospital Dis No 1 Skagit dba Skagit Valley Hospital Vernon, WA | $815 | $1.1k | $722 | 65% | 24–60 | $509 – $2.5k |
| 2 | Seattle Children's Hospital Seattle, WA | $302 | $262 | $152 | 58% | 6–60 | $36 – $523 |
| 3 | Duke University Hospital Durham, NC | $735 | $632 | $117 | 19% | 6–60 | $496 – $745 |
| 4 | Duke University Hospital Raleigh, NC | $735 | $632 | $117 | 19% | 6–60 | $496 – $745 |
| 5 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, NY | $4.3k | $3.4k | $3.1k | 90% | 3–30 | $159 – $8.7k |
| 6 | Avera McKennan Hospital Sioux Falls, SD | $519 | $611 | $269 | 44% | 3–30 | $319 – $1.1k |
| 7 | Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases Harrison, NY | $4.3k | $3.4k | $3.0k | 90% | 3–30 | $159 – $8.2k |
| 8 | Nor-Lea Hospital District Lovington, NM | $65 | $65 | — | — | 3–30 | $65 – $65 |
| 9 | Tufts Medical Center BOSTON, MA | $1.7k | $1.7k | $823 | 49% | 3–30 | $557 – $3.0k |
| 10 | The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital TORRINGTON, CT | $3.0k | $1.8k | $1.5k | 80% | 2–20 | $170 – $3.5k |
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