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
Laparoscopy Appendectomy
Brookings, SD
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Brookings Health System’s median price of $979 is 84% below the median hospital's median price ($6.2k), higher than 13% of the 1,988 hospitals reporting CPT 44970. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: May 18, 2026
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