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

Surgical exploration of a penetrating wound of the neck

CPT 20100the billing code this page is about

Opening and examining a stab, gunshot, or similar penetrating wound of the neck in the operating room to check for damage and clean it out.

Hospitals typically charge $1,185 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 813 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,244. Most fall between $617 and $2,408 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
813
States
49
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 813 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
$469$693$1,185$1,957$3,591

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($469 vs $3,591).

How the prices are spread

$385 – $490: 48 hospitals$385$490 – $623: 76 hospitals$623 – $793: 76 hospitals$623$793 – $1,008: 108 hospitals$1,008 – $1,282: 98 hospitals$1,008$1,282 – $1,631: 119 hospitals$1,631 – $2,074: 54 hospitals$1,631$2,074 – $2,637: 49 hospitals$2,637 – $3,354: 47 hospitals$2,637$3,354 – $4,266: 62 hospitals$3,354median $1,185price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (737 of 813 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$385$49048
$490$62376
$623$79376
$793$1,008108
$1,008$1,28298
$1,282$1,631119
$1,631$2,07454
$2,074$2,63749
$2,637$3,35447
$3,354$4,26662

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$551
Median cash price$1,185
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $1,185.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,286 across 32 hospitalsWA$1,286Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,172 across 20 hospitalsMN$2,172Illinois: median $873 across 28 hospitalsIL$873Wisconsin: median $3,123 across 32 hospitalsWI$3,123Michigan: median $867 across 21 hospitalsMI$867New York: median $673 across 40 hospitalsNY$673Massachusetts: median $1,379 across 13 hospitalsMA$1,379Oregon: median $1,735 across 30 hospitalsOR$1,735Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,487 across 25 hospitalsIA$1,487Indiana: median $605 across 23 hospitalsIN$605Ohio: median $1,598 across 18 hospitalsOH$1,598Pennsylvania: median $551 across 31 hospitalsPA$551New Jersey: median $2,113 across 28 hospitalsNJ$2,113Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,498 across 82 hospitalsCA$1,498Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,118 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,118Nebraska: median $1,375 across 15 hospitalsNE$1,375Missouri: median $892 across 19 hospitalsMO$892Kentucky: median $616 across 11 hospitalsKY$616West Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $891 across 14 hospitalsVA$891Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $855 across 10 hospitalsKS$855Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $3,544 across 17 hospitalsNC$3,544South Carolina: median $6,122 across 18 hospitalsSC$6,122Oklahoma: median $828 across 23 hospitalsOK$828Louisiana: median $696 across 15 hospitalsLA$696Mississippi: median $816 across 19 hospitalsMS$816Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,730 across 16 hospitalsGA$1,730Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,185 across 58 hospitalsTX$1,185Florida: median $1,339 across 31 hospitalsFL$1,339
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,185. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC18$6,122+417%$1,212 – $6,122
North Carolina NC17$3,544+199%$1,069 – $3,544
Wisconsin WI32$3,123+164%$1,065 – $3,123
Minnesota MN20$2,172+83%$1,345 – $2,490
New Jersey NJ28$2,113+78%$564 – $5,339
Oregon OR30$1,735+46%$1,099 – $2,272
Georgia GA16$1,730+46%$802 – $3,502
Ohio OH18$1,598+35%$1,216 – $2,699
California CA82$1,498+26%$691 – $3,758
Iowa IA25$1,487+26%$802 – $1,487
Massachusetts MA13$1,379+16%$813 – $1,807
Nebraska NE15$1,375+16%$689 – $1,584
Florida FL31$1,339+13%$998 – $2,839
Washington WA32$1,286+8%$665 – $2,102
Texas TX58$1,1850%$713 – $1,335
Colorado CO12$1,118−6%$734 – $1,514
Missouri MO19$892−25%$633 – $1,269
Virginia VA14$891−25%$450 – $891
Illinois IL28$873−26%$550 – $1,574
Michigan MI21$867−27%$742 – $1,598
Kansas KS10$855−28%$493 – $1,128
Oklahoma OK23$828−30%$543 – $1,496
Mississippi MS19$816−31%$400 – $1,539
Louisiana LA15$696−41%$212 – $818
New York NY40$673−43%$603 – $1,825
Kentucky KY11$616−48%$270 – $905
Indiana IN23$605−49%$401 – $873
Pennsylvania PA31$551−54%$405 – $1,408
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $1,185.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care621$1,185$603 – $2,486
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access178$1,274$674 – $2,122
Ownership
For-profit80$1,152$690 – $2,087
Government153$1,082$603 – $2,233
Non-profit579$1,269$640 – $2,486
System affiliation
Part of a system641$1,185$616 – $2,490
Independent172$1,156$625 – $1,940

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,907
Median cash price$1,185
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

559 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,234 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,280; most fall between $693 and $2,408.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 559 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
$519$797$1,234$1,835$3,544

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($519 vs $3,544).

Of the 611 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 559 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 25 a list price only.

How complete is this

813 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (21%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 893 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted813
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code893

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 Exploration Penetrating Wound Spx Neck.

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, “Surgical exploration of a penetrating wound of the neck (CPT 20100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-20100-surgical-exploration-of-a-penetrating-wound-of-the-neck