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Procedure price report · Partial excision bone

Removal of benign tumor or cyst of the lower jaw

CPT 21040the billing code this page is about

Surgery to scoop out and scrape away a noncancerous tumor or cyst from the lower jawbone, leaving the surrounding bone in place.

Hospitals typically charge $2,969 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 408 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,850. Most fall between $851 and $5,485 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
408
States
44
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 408 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
$594$1,140$2,969$4,627$8,839

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($594 vs $8,839).

How the prices are spread

$368 – $512: 13 hospitals$368$512 – $713: 25 hospitals$713 – $992: 30 hospitals$713$992 – $1,382: 37 hospitals$1,382 – $1,925: 48 hospitals$1,382$1,925 – $2,680: 25 hospitals$2,680 – $3,733: 54 hospitals$2,680$3,733 – $5,198: 65 hospitals$5,198 – $7,238: 38 hospitals$5,198$7,238 – $10,080: 38 hospitals$7,238median $2,969price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (373 of 408 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$368$51213
$512$71325
$713$99230
$992$1,38237
$1,382$1,92548
$1,925$2,68025
$2,680$3,73354
$3,733$5,19865
$5,198$7,23838
$7,238$10,08038

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$2,969
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $2,969.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,444 across 10 hospitalsWA$2,444Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,498 across 13 hospitalsMN$1,498Illinois: median $1,063 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,063Wisconsin: median $2,231 across 28 hospitalsWI$2,231Michigan: median $1,878 across 16 hospitalsMI$1,878New York: median $4,139 across 45 hospitalsNY$4,139Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $1,231 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,231Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,383 across 13 hospitalsOH$1,383Pennsylvania: median $1,981 across 23 hospitalsPA$1,981New Jersey: median $4,328 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,328Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,080 across 38 hospitalsCA$5,080Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $791 across 10 hospitalsMO$791Kentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $594 across 13 hospitalsOK$594Louisiana: median $2,010 across 12 hospitalsLA$2,010Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,578 across 23 hospitalsTX$3,578Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,969. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA38$5,080+71%$1,456 – $10,080
New Jersey NJ33$4,328+46%$3,593 – $5,741
New York NY45$4,139+39%$3,710 – $4,950
Texas TX23$3,578+21%$3,034 – $3,578
Washington WA10$2,444−18%$780 – $2,829
Wisconsin WI28$2,231−25%$1,878 – $3,179
Louisiana LA12$2,010−32%$1,128 – $5,065
Pennsylvania PA23$1,981−33%$236 – $6,111
Michigan MI16$1,878−37%$804 – $4,559
Minnesota MN13$1,498−50%$1,277 – $1,617
Ohio OH13$1,383−53%$1,057 – $6,790
Iowa IA16$1,231−59%$1,231 – $1,231
Illinois IL13$1,063−64%$368 – $4,137
Missouri MO10$791−73%$728 – $5,418
Oklahoma OK13$594−80%$594 – $6,612
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not 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 $2,969.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care336$3,480$1,038 – $5,741
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access57$1,878$791 – $3,543
Ownership
For-profit37$2,868$656 – $5,269
Government46$2,896$786 – $4,254
Non-profit324$3,110$1,063 – $5,741
System affiliation
Part of a system338$3,179$1,061 – $5,695
Independent70$1,509$703 – $4,947

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,889
Median cash price$2,969
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

221 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,878 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,541; most fall between $791 and $5,753.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 221 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
$590$1,003$1,878$5,088$10,080

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($590 vs $10,080).

Of the 235 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 221 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

408 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 446 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted408
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here33
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code446

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Partial excision bone family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision Benign Tumor/Cyst Mandible Encl & Curt.

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, “Removal of benign tumor or cyst of the lower jaw (CPT 21040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-21040-removal-of-benign-tumor-or-cyst-of-the-lower-jaw