Hospital prices, out in the open.

Tonsil and adenoid removal, under age 12 in GA42820

Remove tonsils and adenoids

Lowest reported
$258
Typical
$5,997
Highest reported
$17,599

Across 53 GA hospitals that publish a negotiated price for this code. Each hospital's figure is the middle of the rates it publishes across its own insurance plans, so the spread within one hospital is often wider than the gap between two.

Two different kinds of price are mixed together below. A procedure code is billed twice — once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work — and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. For this code, 35 hospitals publish a facility charge, 4 hospitals publish both, mixed together, and 14 hospitals do not say which. A physician fee is typically a small fraction of the hospital charge, so a much lower number here usually means it is measuring less, not that the hospital is cheaper. Unlabelled does not mean it is the hospital charge — some hospitals publish a physician fee without saying so, and nothing in the data distinguishes them.
Hospital Typical Hospital’s own chargefacility Doctor’s chargeprofessional Self-paycash price Lowest Highest Plans on file
Grady Memorial Hospital
ATLANTA · ★2/5
Facility & physician mixed
see split → $5,886 $235 not published $195 $10,889 63
Atrium Health Navicent Peach
BYRON · ★1/5
Facility & physician mixed
see split → $3,403 $331 not published $316 $3,403 21
Navicent Health Baldwin
MILLEDGEVILLE · ★2/5
Facility & physician mixed
see split → $5,764 $309 not published $275 $6,575 30
Atrium Health Navicent the Medical Center
MACON · ★2/5
Facility & physician mixed
see split → $5,422 $350 not published $275 $5,879 38
Optim Medical Center - Tattnall
REIDSVILLE · not rated
Facility fee only
$1,259 $1,259 not mentioned $33,523 $1,259 $1,259 1
Colquitt Regional Medical Center
MOULTRIE · ★4/5
$1,316 not mentioned not mentioned $1,316 $253 $8,810 44
Hamilton Medical Center
DALTON · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$2,514 $2,514 not mentioned not published $2,395 $9,635 3
Chi Memorial Hospital- Georgia
RINGGOLD · ★3/5
$2,819 not mentioned not mentioned not published $167 $12,951 21
St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah
SAVANNAH · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$3,380 $3,380 not mentioned $259 $1,314 $14,100 24
Candler Hospital
SAVANNAH · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$3,380 $3,380 not mentioned $259 $1,314 $14,100 24
Memorial Health University Medical Center
SAVANNAH · ★1/5
$3,442 not mentioned not mentioned not published $1,150 $14,439 209
Fairview Park Hospital
DUBLIN · ★4/5
$4,368 not mentioned not mentioned not published $1,150 $14,734 227
Memorial Health Meadows Hospital
VIDALIA · ★5/5
$4,384 not mentioned not mentioned not published $1,150 $25,200 133
St Francis Hospital- Emory Healthcare
COLUMBUS · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$4,522 $4,522 not mentioned not published $357 $12,969 16
Doctors Hospital
AUGUSTA · ★3/5
$4,680 not mentioned not mentioned not published $1,150 $14,734 195
Phoebe Sumter Medical Center
AMERICUS · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$5,447 $5,447 not mentioned not published $5,188 $9,078 7
Emory Houston Hospital Warner Robins
WARNER ROBINS · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$5,462 $5,462 not mentioned not published $4,419 $11,242 13
Memorial Satilla Health
WAYCROSS · ★3/5
$5,508 not mentioned not mentioned not published $1,150 $14,439 166
AdventHealth Murray
CHATSWORTH · ★5/5
Facility fee only
$5,567 $5,567 not mentioned not published $2,522 $10,924 8
Effingham Health System
SPRINGFIELD · not rated
$5,600 not mentioned not mentioned $13,000 $5,354 $19,000 26
WellStar MCG Health, Affiliated with Med Col
AUGUSTA · ★1/5
Facility fee only
$5,680 $5,680 not mentioned not published $1,937 $18,873 22
Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica
VILLA RICA · ★3/5
$5,740 not mentioned not mentioned $5,740 $2,079 $8,897 17
Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center
ROME · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$5,764 $5,764 not mentioned not published $2,203 $11,528 15
AdventHealth Gordon
CALHOUN · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$5,893 $5,893 not mentioned not published $1,266 $11,917 11
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital
ALBANY · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$5,988 $5,988 not mentioned not published $5,703 $9,980 7
WellStar Sylvan Grove Medical Center
JACKSON · not rated
Facility fee only
$5,994 $5,994 not mentioned not published $1,937 $20,943 6
Emory Hillandale Hospital
LITHONIA · ★1/5
Facility fee only
$5,997 $5,997 not mentioned $7,906 $3,600 $12,588 17
Emory University Hospital
ATLANTA · ★4/5
Facility fee only
$6,056 $6,056 not mentioned $7,906 $3,600 $12,588 19
Emory Decatur Hospital
DECATUR · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$6,056 $6,056 not mentioned $7,906 $3,600 $12,588 19
Tanner Medical Center - Carrollton
CARROLLTON · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$6,086 $6,086 not mentioned $3,688 $5,909 $6,500 10
Northside Hospital Forsyth
CUMMING · ★4/5
$6,094 not mentioned not mentioned not published $383 $50,000 106
Northside Hospital Cherokee
CANTON · ★4/5
$6,094 not mentioned not mentioned not published $383 $50,000 108
Emory University Hospital Midtown
ATLANTA · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$6,133 $6,133 not mentioned $7,906 $3,600 $12,747 19
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
ATLANTA · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$6,133 $6,133 not mentioned $7,906 $3,600 $12,747 19
Emory Johns Creek Hospital
JOHNS CREEK · ★4/5
Facility fee only
$6,133 $6,133 not mentioned $7,906 $3,600 $12,747 19
Northside Hospital Duluth
DULUTH · ★4/5
$6,135 not mentioned not mentioned not published $383 $50,000 110
Northside Hospital Gwinnett
LAWRENCEVILLE · ★3/5
$6,135 not mentioned not mentioned not published $383 $50,000 110
WellStar West Georgia Medical Center
LAGRANGE · ★5/5
Facility fee only
$6,206 $6,206 not mentioned not published $1,937 $22,669 14
Northside Hospital
ATLANTA · ★3/5
$6,211 not mentioned not mentioned not published $383 $50,000 107
WellStar Douglas Medical Center
DOUGLASVILLE · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$6,257 $6,257 not mentioned not published $1,937 $22,630 13
WellStar Spalding Medical Center
GRIFFIN · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$6,294 $6,294 not mentioned not published $1,937 $22,629 14
WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center
MARIETTA · ★4/5
Facility fee only
$6,313 $6,313 not mentioned not published $1,937 $22,572 13
WellStar North Fulton Medical Center
ROSWELL · ★2/5
Facility fee only
$6,313 $6,313 not mentioned not published $1,937 $22,915 13
WellStar Paulding Medical Center
HIRAM · ★4/5
Facility fee only
$6,313 $6,313 not mentioned not published $1,937 $22,572 13
WellStar Cobb Medical Center
AUSTELL · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$6,313 $6,313 not mentioned not published $1,937 $23,446 13
AdventHealth Redmond
ROME · ★4/5
Facility fee only
$6,337 $6,337 not mentioned not published $2,363 $17,104 13
East Georgia Regional Medical Center
STATESBORO · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$7,203 $7,203 not mentioned $7,203 $275 $29,333 41
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham
DEMOREST · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$7,645 $7,645 not mentioned not published $2,165 $22,325 10
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Lumpkin
DAHLONEGA · ★5/5
Facility fee only
$9,843 $9,843 not mentioned not published $6,142 $22,325 9
Northeast Georgia Medical Center
GAINESVILLE · ★3/5
Facility fee only
$9,843 $9,843 not mentioned not published $5,825 $22,325 9
NGMC Barrow
WINDER · ★4/5
Facility fee only
$9,843 $9,843 not mentioned not published $5,938 $22,325 9
Mountain Lakes Medical Center
CLAYTON · not rated
Facility fee only
$12,788 $12,788 not mentioned $6,600 $11,550 $14,025 2
St Mary's Hospital
ATHENS · ★1/5
Facility fee only
$17,599 $17,599 not mentioned $16,371 $5,709 $17,599 94

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance — the number to use if you have no coverage, or if this hospital is out of network. Paying self-pay usually doesn’t count toward your deductible, so it can cost less for this one service and more across a full year, if you’d have met your deductible anyway. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what you would.

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1 of these 53 hospitals has not published an updated price file in over a year, or does not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

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These are prices the hospitals published themselves, as required by the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50). They are the hospital's share only — the surgeon, anesthesiologist and radiologist usually bill separately and do not appear in any hospital file, so treat every figure here as part of a total rather than the total. What you actually pay also depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance.