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
REPAIR INITIAL INGUINAL HERNIA, AGE 6 MONTHS TO YOUNGER THAN 5 YEARS, WITH OR WITHOUT HYDROCELECTOMY; INCARCERATED OR STRANGULATED
Chapel Hill, NC
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University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill’s median price of $3.6k is 10% below the median hospital's median price ($4.0k), higher than 37% of the 1,539 hospitals reporting CPT 49501. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Jun 4, 2026
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