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
EXC/DSTRJ LINGUAL TONSIL ANY METHOD SPX
Edison, NJ
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Hmh Hospitals Corporation’s median price of $7.4k is 28% above the median hospital's median price ($5.8k), higher than 75% of the 1,532 hospitals reporting CPT 42870. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Dec 31, 2025
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