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.
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44955 Appendectomy when done for indicated purpose
Astoria, OR
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Columbia Lutheran Charities’s median price of $84 is 93% below the median hospital's median price ($1.2k), higher than 19% of the 1,405 hospitals reporting CPT 44955. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Jan 5, 2026
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