RC 516
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
Removal of impacted ear wax
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Based on 97,598–112,628 billing samples across every hospital reporting.
Low
$42
Average
$322
Median
$221
High
$3.5k
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| 1 | Holland Community Hospital Holland, MI | $213 | $355 | $483 | 136% | 59,240–61,526 | $5 – $4.7k |
| 2 | UF Health Leesburg, FL | $288 | $553 | $1.0k | 186% | 10,718–13,310 | $2 – $52.7k |
| 3 | Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Charles, LA | $233 | $377 | $482 | 128% | 10,274–11,390 | $8 – $5.6k |
| 4 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $256 | $418 | $502 | 120% | 3,604–7,744 | $9 – $6.3k |
| 5 | Aspen Valley Hospital District Aspen, CO | $228 | $254 | $156 | 62% | 3,381–4,227 | $58 – $2.8k |
| 6 | University of New Mexico Hospital | UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital Albuquerque, NM | $175 | $252 | $323 | 128% | 2,180–2,594 | $1 – $3.9k |
| 7 | Sonora Community Hospital Sonora, CA | $143 | $154 | $87 | 57% | 2,112–2,499 | $8 – $400 |
| 8 | Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro Inc Milwaukee, WI | $170 | $249 | $197 | 79% | 1,522–1,711 | $60 – $1.6k |
| 9 | Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc Lodi, CA | $119 | $140 | $97 | 69% | 977–1,526 | $8 – $494 |
| 10 | Las Cruces Medical Center LLC Las Cruces, NM | $144 | $215 | $150 | 70% | 948–1,092 | $9 – $722 |
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