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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Low
$42
Average
$374
Median
$317
High
$1.4k
Showing only prices reported under the percent of billed charges methodology. Choose another in the filter below to change the chart. 94 hospitals; the 90th percentile is 13.0× the 10th. Each bar is a price range and its height is how many hospitals fall in it. Hover a bar, or a row in the ladder, for details.
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Reflects a negotiated percentage of total billed charges.
| # | Hospital | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holland Community Hospital Holland, MI | $123 | $191 | $256 | 134% | 59,240–61,526 | $5 – $2.5k |
| 2 | El Paso Children's Hospital El Paso, TX | $462 | $781 | $909 | 116% | 31,347–33,183 | $16 – $5.7k |
| 3 | UF Health Leesburg, FL | $289 | $493 | $694 | 141% | 6,313–8,131 | $7 – $6.8k |
| 4 | Aspen Valley Hospital District Aspen, CO | $227 | $251 | $146 | 58% | 3,381–4,227 | $58 – $901 |
| 5 | Sonora Community Hospital Sonora, CA | $205 | $205 | $74 | 36% | 2,112–2,499 | $64 – $400 |
| 6 | Curators of the University of Missouri Columbia, MO | $411 | $621 | $701 | 113% | 2,034–5,121 | $9 – $6.3k |
| 7 | Aurora Sinai Medical Center of Aurora Health Care Metro Inc Milwaukee, WI | $356 | $402 | $265 | 66% | 1,522–1,711 | $60 – $1.6k |
| 8 | Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Charles, LA | $180 | $259 | $265 | 102% | 996–1,230 | $12 – $2.2k |
| 9 | Lodi Memorial Hospital Association Inc Lodi, CA | $166 | $187 | $96 | 51% | 977–1,526 | $53 – $494 |
| 10 | Kaiser Permanente Central Hospital Seattle, WA | $371 | $1.2k | $1.3k | 107% | 938–956 | $223 – $3.1k |
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