HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Incision and drainage, skin and subcutaneous tissue

Drainage of a pilonidal cyst, simple

CPT 10080the billing code this page is about

The skin over a pilonidal cyst near the tailbone is opened to drain fluid and pus; covers a straightforward drainage.

Hospitals typically charge $522 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,655 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $562. Most fall between $229 and $1,111 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,655
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 2,655 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$152$269$522$926$1,731

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($152 vs $1,731).

How the prices are spread

$116 – $157: 145 hospitals$116$157 – $213: 190 hospitals$213 – $288: 251 hospitals$213$288 – $391: 312 hospitals$391 – $531: 329 hospitals$391$531 – $720: 313 hospitals$720 – $976: 368 hospitals$720$976 – $1,324: 207 hospitals$1,324 – $1,795: 159 hospitals$1,324$1,795 – $2,435: 121 hospitals$1,795median $522price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,395 of 2,655 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$116$157145
$157$213190
$213$288251
$288$391312
$391$531329
$531$720313
$720$976368
$976$1,324207
$1,324$1,795159
$1,795$2,435121

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$522
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $522.

Alaska: median $591 across 15 hospitalsAK$591Maine: median $275 across 22 hospitalsME$275Vermont: median $359 across 12 hospitalsVT$359New Hampshire: median $236 across 18 hospitalsNH$236Washington: median $561 across 76 hospitalsWA$561Idaho: median $439 across 22 hospitalsID$439Montana: median $255 across 28 hospitalsMT$255North Dakota: median $583 across 26 hospitalsND$583Minnesota: median $474 across 88 hospitalsMN$474Illinois: median $520 across 117 hospitalsIL$520Wisconsin: median $318 across 96 hospitalsWI$318Michigan: median $539 across 81 hospitalsMI$539New York: median $730 across 102 hospitalsNY$730Massachusetts: median $824 across 44 hospitalsMA$824Oregon: median $393 across 54 hospitalsOR$393Nevada: median $424 across 14 hospitalsNV$424Wyoming: median $276 across 13 hospitalsWY$276South Dakota: median $394 across 20 hospitalsSD$394Iowa: median $361 across 76 hospitalsIA$361Indiana: median $350 across 51 hospitalsIN$350Ohio: median $723 across 123 hospitalsOH$723Pennsylvania: median $704 across 120 hospitalsPA$704New Jersey: median $936 across 50 hospitalsNJ$936Connecticut: median $570 across 19 hospitalsCT$570Rhode Island: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,274 across 135 hospitalsCA$1,274Utah: median $1,222 across 28 hospitalsUT$1,222Colorado: median $420 across 48 hospitalsCO$420Nebraska: median $388 across 63 hospitalsNE$388Missouri: median $705 across 67 hospitalsMO$705Kentucky: median $375 across 45 hospitalsKY$375West Virginia: median $679 across 37 hospitalsWV$679Virginia: median $475 across 55 hospitalsVA$475Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $318 across 29 hospitalsAZ$318New Mexico: median $536 across 25 hospitalsNM$536Kansas: median $315 across 67 hospitalsKS$315Arkansas: median $361 across 33 hospitalsAR$361Tennessee: median $279 across 49 hospitalsTN$279North Carolina: median $398 across 57 hospitalsNC$398South Carolina: median $466 across 45 hospitalsSC$466Oklahoma: median $372 across 60 hospitalsOK$372Louisiana: median $347 across 49 hospitalsLA$347Mississippi: median $236 across 50 hospitalsMS$236Alabama: median $593 across 36 hospitalsAL$593Georgia: median $706 across 88 hospitalsGA$706Hawaii: median $1,230 across 16 hospitalsHI$1,230Texas: median $558 across 173 hospitalsTX$558Florida: median $1,715 across 96 hospitalsFL$1,715
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $522. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL96$1,715+229%$527 – $2,862
California CA135$1,274+144%$582 – $1,994
Hawaii HI16$1,230+136%$530 – $2,335
Utah UT28$1,222+134%$1,029 – $1,286
New Jersey NJ50$936+79%$769 – $4,536
Massachusetts MA44$824+58%$243 – $1,950
New York NY102$730+40%$193 – $1,550
Ohio OH123$723+38%$341 – $1,372
Georgia GA88$706+35%$203 – $1,186
Missouri MO67$705+35%$225 – $1,216
Pennsylvania PA120$704+35%$220 – $1,076
West Virginia WV37$679+30%$304 – $1,031
Alabama AL36$593+14%$198 – $1,014
Alaska AK15$591+13%$229 – $852
North Dakota ND26$583+12%$327 – $743
Connecticut CT19$570+9%$280 – $1,388
Washington WA76$561+8%$296 – $856
Texas TX173$558+7%$284 – $926
Michigan MI81$539+3%$139 – $770
New Mexico NM25$536+3%$199 – $891
Illinois IL117$5200%$257 – $1,030
Virginia VA55$475−9%$142 – $902
Minnesota MN88$474−9%$256 – $636
South Carolina SC45$466−11%$184 – $929
Idaho ID22$439−16%$216 – $1,783
Nevada NV14$424−19%$249 – $1,050
Colorado CO48$420−20%$272 – $969
North Carolina NC57$398−24%$302 – $817
South Dakota SD20$394−24%$244 – $722
Oregon OR54$393−25%$248 – $651
Nebraska NE63$388−26%$254 – $588
Kentucky KY45$375−28%$229 – $910
Oklahoma OK60$372−29%$184 – $769
Arkansas AR33$361−31%$214 – $618
Iowa IA76$361−31%$203 – $510
Vermont VT12$359−31%$182 – $1,124
Indiana IN51$350−33%$217 – $762
Louisiana LA49$347−34%$127 – $841
Wisconsin WI96$318−39%$148 – $605
Arizona AZ29$318−39%$253 – $920
Kansas KS67$315−40%$213 – $811
Tennessee TN49$279−47%$123 – $513
Wyoming WY13$276−47%$131 – $513
Maine ME22$275−47%$107 – $483
Montana MT28$255−51%$154 – $436
New Hampshire NH18$236−55%$95 – $392
Mississippi MS50$236−55%$159 – $600
Rhode Island RI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $522.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,808$629$271 – $1,286
Children’s55$782$340 – $3,060
Critical access784$330$182 – $702
Ownership
For-profit284$716$278 – $1,523
Government535$382$201 – $850
Non-profit1,828$547$235 – $1,157
System affiliation
Part of a system2,105$561$249 – $1,186
Independent550$375$177 – $859

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$864
Median cash price$522
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

1,937 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $542 and the average of the middle 60% is $598; most fall between $255 and $1,189.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,937 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$163$295$542$985$1,783

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($163 vs $1,783).

Of the 2,076 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,937 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 91 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,655 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (67%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,845 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,655
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here78
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded11
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded101
Hospitals that filed this code2,845

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between July 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Incision and drainage, skin and subcutaneous tissue family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Drain Pilonidal Cyst Simpl.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Drainage of a pilonidal cyst, simple (CPT 10080) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-10080-drainage-of-a-pilonidal-cyst-simple