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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Simple removal of a pilonidal cyst near the tailbone

CPT 11770the billing code this page is about

Surgical cutting out of a cyst or sinus tract in the cleft above the tailbone, for a straightforward case involving limited tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $2,076 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,393 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,330. Most fall between $503 and $5,581 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,393
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 1,393 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
$349$582$2,076$4,595$7,697

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($349 vs $7,697).

How the prices are spread

$254 – $366: 88 hospitals$254$366 – $527: 144 hospitals$527 – $759: 151 hospitals$527$759 – $1,093: 88 hospitals$1,093 – $1,574: 96 hospitals$1,093$1,574 – $2,267: 89 hospitals$2,267 – $3,264: 148 hospitals$2,267$3,264 – $4,700: 196 hospitals$4,700 – $6,768: 147 hospitals$4,700$6,768 – $9,746: 108 hospitals$6,768median $2,076price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,255 of 1,393 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$254$36688
$366$527144
$527$759151
$759$1,09388
$1,093$1,57496
$1,574$2,26789
$2,267$3,264148
$3,264$4,700196
$4,700$6,768147
$6,768$9,746108

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,076
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.70×

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 $2,076.

Alaska: median $2,710 across 10 hospitalsAK$2,710Maine: median $510 across 15 hospitalsME$510Vermont: median $505 across 11 hospitalsVT$505New Hampshire: median $328 across 12 hospitalsNH$328Washington: median $1,580 across 44 hospitalsWA$1,580Idaho: median $3,399 across 15 hospitalsID$3,399Montana: median $422 across 16 hospitalsMT$422North Dakota: median $2,944 across 14 hospitalsND$2,944Minnesota: median $1,214 across 54 hospitalsMN$1,214Illinois: median $902 across 57 hospitalsIL$902Wisconsin: median $1,450 across 57 hospitalsWI$1,450Michigan: median $429 across 44 hospitalsMI$429New York: median $3,387 across 75 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: median $4,380 across 26 hospitalsMA$4,380Oregon: median $866 across 39 hospitalsOR$866Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,003 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,003Iowa: median $754 across 60 hospitalsIA$754Indiana: median $612 across 27 hospitalsIN$612Ohio: median $4,440 across 66 hospitalsOH$4,440Pennsylvania: median $1,900 across 54 hospitalsPA$1,900New Jersey: median $3,792 across 37 hospitalsNJ$3,792Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,455 across 75 hospitalsCA$3,455Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $729 across 22 hospitalsCO$729Nebraska: median $851 across 28 hospitalsNE$851Missouri: median $2,451 across 47 hospitalsMO$2,451Kentucky: median $892 across 23 hospitalsKY$892West Virginia: median $3,339 across 28 hospitalsWV$3,339Virginia: median $3,042 across 41 hospitalsVA$3,042Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $639 across 34 hospitalsKS$639Arkansas: median $3,420 across 15 hospitalsAR$3,420Tennessee: median $2,218 across 23 hospitalsTN$2,218North Carolina: median $2,830 across 27 hospitalsNC$2,830South Carolina: median $4,651 across 18 hospitalsSC$4,651Oklahoma: median $540 across 26 hospitalsOK$540Louisiana: median $2,003 across 26 hospitalsLA$2,003Mississippi: median $1,911 across 12 hospitalsMS$1,911Alabama: median $2,859 across 17 hospitalsAL$2,859Georgia: median $6,300 across 19 hospitalsGA$6,300Hawaii: median $2,628 across 12 hospitalsHI$2,628Texas: median $3,001 across 76 hospitalsTX$3,001Florida: median $5,918 across 29 hospitalsFL$5,918
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,076. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA19$6,300+204%$925 – $7,515
Florida FL29$5,918+185%$2,873 – $6,976
South Carolina SC18$4,651+124%$3,981 – $6,200
Ohio OH66$4,440+114%$604 – $6,232
Massachusetts MA26$4,380+111%$2,884 – $6,709
New Jersey NJ37$3,792+83%$3,168 – $5,110
California CA75$3,455+66%$1,284 – $8,646
Arkansas AR15$3,420+65%$508 – $6,159
Idaho ID15$3,399+64%$701 – $7,765
New York NY75$3,387+63%$518 – $4,595
West Virginia WV28$3,339+61%$505 – $6,205
Virginia VA41$3,042+47%$1,787 – $5,613
Texas TX76$3,001+45%$1,813 – $4,185
North Dakota ND14$2,944+42%$590 – $3,597
Alabama AL17$2,859+38%$787 – $8,367
North Carolina NC27$2,830+36%$2,102 – $6,934
Alaska AK10$2,710+31%$1,524 – $5,037
Hawaii HI12$2,628+27%$442 – $5,623
Missouri MO47$2,451+18%$433 – $7,302
Tennessee TN23$2,218+7%$346 – $4,587
Louisiana LA26$2,003−4%$1,268 – $3,807
Mississippi MS12$1,911−8%$413 – $4,852
Pennsylvania PA54$1,900−8%$289 – $5,482
Washington WA44$1,580−24%$634 – $4,977
Wisconsin WI57$1,450−30%$489 – $1,970
Minnesota MN54$1,214−42%$459 – $2,988
South Dakota SD10$1,003−52%$716 – $1,441
Illinois IL57$902−57%$393 – $4,391
Kentucky KY23$892−57%$349 – $11,492
Oregon OR39$866−58%$559 – $6,970
Nebraska NE28$851−59%$462 – $3,601
Iowa IA60$754−64%$535 – $1,469
Colorado CO22$729−65%$479 – $3,381
Kansas KS34$639−69%$442 – $2,289
Indiana IN27$612−71%$349 – $7,592
Oklahoma OK26$540−74%$493 – $2,922
Maine ME15$510−75%$238 – $1,382
Vermont VT11$505−76%$401 – $1,464
Michigan MI44$429−79%$285 – $4,336
Montana MT16$422−80%$251 – $746
New Hampshire NH12$328−84%$167 – $863
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,076.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care954$3,078$704 – $6,192
Children’s23$2,849$667 – $6,872
Critical access414$635$400 – $2,125
Ownership
For-profit127$4,185$920 – $8,901
Government282$925$448 – $3,420
Non-profit982$2,174$518 – $5,581
System affiliation
Part of a system1,085$2,615$540 – $5,838
Independent308$739$400 – $3,500

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,022
Median cash price$2,076
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

804 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,970 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,169; most fall between $489 and $5,037.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 804 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
$349$550$1,970$4,349$6,629

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($349 vs $6,629).

Of the 884 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 804 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 48 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,393 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,529 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,393
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded57
Hospitals that filed this code1,529

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 September 4, 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 Other OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision Pilonidal Cyst/Sinus Simple.

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.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Simple removal of a pilonidal cyst near the tailbone (CPT 11770) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11770-simple-removal-of-a-pilonidal-cyst-near-the-tailbone