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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx

Drainage of an abscess or blood collection inside the nose

CPT 30000the billing code this page is about

Opening and draining a pocket of pus or blood inside the nose through the nostril, without an external cut.

Hospitals typically charge $407 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,230 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $434. Most fall between $230 and $734 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,230
States
50
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 1,230 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
$167$257$407$683$1,160

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($167 vs $1,160).

How the prices are spread

$126 – $163: 61 hospitals$126$163 – $212: 87 hospitals$212 – $275: 148 hospitals$212$275 – $357: 178 hospitals$357 – $463: 151 hospitals$357$463 – $602: 170 hospitals$602 – $781: 159 hospitals$602$781 – $1,014: 76 hospitals$1,014 – $1,317: 50 hospitals$1,014$1,317 – $1,710: 31 hospitals$1,317median $407price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,111 of 1,230 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$126$16361
$163$21287
$212$275148
$275$357178
$357$463151
$463$602170
$602$781159
$781$1,01476
$1,014$1,31750
$1,317$1,71031

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$242
Median cash price$407
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.68×

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 $407.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $430 across 35 hospitalsWA$430Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $271 across 21 hospitalsMN$271Illinois: median $467 across 54 hospitalsIL$467Wisconsin: median $480 across 40 hospitalsWI$480Michigan: median $308 across 41 hospitalsMI$308New York: median $364 across 65 hospitalsNY$364Massachusetts: median $812 across 24 hospitalsMA$812Oregon: median $481 across 31 hospitalsOR$481Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $439 across 23 hospitalsIA$439Indiana: median $295 across 31 hospitalsIN$295Ohio: median $332 across 47 hospitalsOH$332Pennsylvania: median $346 across 59 hospitalsPA$346New Jersey: median $1,142 across 31 hospitalsNJ$1,142Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $619 across 96 hospitalsCA$619Utah: median $437 across 25 hospitalsUT$437Colorado: median $397 across 15 hospitalsCO$397Nebraska: median $266 across 25 hospitalsNE$266Missouri: median $333 across 26 hospitalsMO$333Kentucky: median $292 across 17 hospitalsKY$292West Virginia: median $348 across 25 hospitalsWV$348Virginia: median $382 across 28 hospitalsVA$382Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,176 across 11 hospitalsAZ$1,176New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $256 across 17 hospitalsKS$256Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $167 across 14 hospitalsTN$167North Carolina: median $462 across 29 hospitalsNC$462South Carolina: median $351 across 26 hospitalsSC$351Oklahoma: median $200 across 35 hospitalsOK$200Louisiana: median $259 across 29 hospitalsLA$259Mississippi: median $157 across 26 hospitalsMS$157Alabama: median $280 across 11 hospitalsAL$280Georgia: median $713 across 36 hospitalsGA$713Hawaii: median $554 across 10 hospitalsHI$554Texas: median $734 across 84 hospitalsTX$734Florida: median $560 across 51 hospitalsFL$560
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $407. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$1,176+189%$783 – $1,176
New Jersey NJ31$1,142+181%$257 – $5,110
Massachusetts MA24$812+99%$308 – $1,411
Texas TX84$734+80%$421 – $977
Georgia GA36$713+75%$253 – $1,858
California CA96$619+52%$285 – $703
Florida FL51$560+38%$204 – $868
Hawaii HI10$554+36%$372 – $855
Oregon OR31$481+18%$430 – $665
Wisconsin WI40$480+18%$236 – $491
Illinois IL54$467+15%$211 – $743
North Carolina NC29$462+13%$242 – $548
Iowa IA23$439+8%$223 – $706
Utah UT25$437+7%$363 – $466
Washington WA35$430+6%$312 – $655
Colorado CO15$397−2%$270 – $524
Virginia VA28$382−6%$330 – $2,259
New York NY65$364−11%$275 – $582
South Carolina SC26$351−14%$351 – $653
West Virginia WV25$348−14%$126 – $556
Pennsylvania PA59$346−15%$236 – $2,685
Missouri MO26$333−18%$187 – $345
Ohio OH47$332−18%$236 – $694
Michigan MI41$308−24%$201 – $605
Indiana IN31$295−28%$236 – $550
Kentucky KY17$292−28%$205 – $932
Alabama AL11$280−31%$195 – $315
Minnesota MN21$271−33%$214 – $330
Nebraska NE25$266−35%$156 – $533
Louisiana LA29$259−36%$158 – $471
Kansas KS17$256−37%$234 – $386
Oklahoma OK35$200−51%$188 – $327
Tennessee TN14$167−59%$101 – $317
Mississippi MS26$157−62%$120 – $238
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $407.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care986$425$231 – $748
Children’s22$439$284 – $1,186
Critical access221$361$225 – $554
Ownership
For-profit111$499$236 – $1,109
Government188$350$214 – $662
Non-profit930$425$235 – $717
System affiliation
Part of a system1,031$425$236 – $740
Independent199$344$187 – $630

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$697
Median cash price$407
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

927 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $451 and the average of the middle 60% is $468; most fall between $240 and $761.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 927 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
$175$272$451$694$1,176

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($175 vs $1,176).

Of the 992 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 927 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,230 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (31%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,325 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,230
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,325

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 nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Drainage Abscess/Hematoma Nasal Int Approach.

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, “Drainage of an abscess or blood collection inside the nose (CPT 30000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-30000-drainage-of-an-abscess-or-blood-collection-inside-the-nose