SelfPayRates — hospital cash prices, from the source

Tonsil and adenoid removal, child under 12 in Michigan City-La Porte, IN

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 42820, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 22, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 1, 2026.

HospitalCash price List priceOffFile date
La Porte Hospital Company LLC LA PORTE, IN
REMOVE TONSILS AND ADENOIDS
$13,126.30 $39,776.67 67% Apr 1, 2026
file

Outpatient: lowest $13,126.30, median $13,126.30, highest $13,126.30.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 1 facility here, median $515.70. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

2 rows held back from this comparison

They are priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 42820 ($4,321.20). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

La Porte Hospital Company LLC LA PORTE, IN
42820 REMOVE TONSILS AND ADENOIDS
$252.12 file
La Porte Hospital Company LLC LA PORTE, IN
42820 22 REMOVE TONSILS AND ADENOIDS
$315.15 file

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