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

Placement of a nasal septum button

CPT 30220the billing code this page is about

Fitting a small plastic prosthesis into a hole in the wall between the nostrils to close the perforation.

Hospitals typically charge $1,189 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 496 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,312. Most fall between $378 and $3,030 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
496
States
48
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 496 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
$243$478$1,189$2,260$5,419

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($243 vs $5,419).

How the prices are spread

$176 – $249: 28 hospitals$176$249 – $354: 43 hospitals$354 – $502: 32 hospitals$354$502 – $713: 41 hospitals$713 – $1,011: 48 hospitals$713$1,011 – $1,435: 64 hospitals$1,435 – $2,036: 63 hospitals$1,435$2,036 – $2,890: 51 hospitals$2,890 – $4,100: 33 hospitals$2,890$4,100 – $5,818: 45 hospitals$4,100median $1,189price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (448 of 496 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$176$24928
$249$35443
$354$50232
$502$71341
$713$1,01148
$1,011$1,43564
$1,435$2,03663
$2,036$2,89051
$2,890$4,10033
$4,100$5,81845

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$1,189
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $1,189.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $895 across 18 hospitalsMN$895Illinois: median $542 across 20 hospitalsIL$542Wisconsin: median $1,189 across 46 hospitalsWI$1,189Michigan: median $1,189 across 20 hospitalsMI$1,189New York: median $1,753 across 35 hospitalsNY$1,753Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $541 across 13 hospitalsOR$541Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $746 across 18 hospitalsIA$746Indiana: median $1,258 across 22 hospitalsIN$1,258Ohio: median $518 across 16 hospitalsOH$518Pennsylvania: median $1,025 across 24 hospitalsPA$1,025New Jersey: median $3,857 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,857Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,634 across 32 hospitalsCA$5,634Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $478 across 12 hospitalsMO$478Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,784 across 12 hospitalsWV$1,784Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $211 across 14 hospitalsOK$211Louisiana: median $1,019 across 16 hospitalsLA$1,019Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,052 across 25 hospitalsTX$2,052Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,189. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$5,634+374%$878 – $5,634
New Jersey NJ24$3,857+224%$1,640 – $5,741
Texas TX25$2,052+73%$1,158 – $2,260
West Virginia WV12$1,784+50%$335 – $1,982
New York NY35$1,753+47%$382 – $3,205
Indiana IN22$1,258+6%$431 – $1,789
Michigan MI20$1,1890%$154 – $3,052
Wisconsin WI46$1,1890%$528 – $1,774
Pennsylvania PA24$1,025−14%$83 – $2,791
Louisiana LA16$1,019−14%$732 – $1,443
Minnesota MN18$895−25%$291 – $895
Iowa IA18$746−37%$746 – $1,008
Illinois IL20$542−54%$340 – $2,533
Oregon OR13$541−54%$235 – $541
Ohio OH16$518−56%$352 – $4,429
Missouri MO12$478−60%$447 – $2,478
Oklahoma OK14$211−82%$211 – $4,477
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $1,189.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care391$1,351$413 – $3,209
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access95$895$344 – $2,052
Ownership
For-profit40$1,603$344 – $3,172
Government69$1,154$443 – $1,982
Non-profit387$1,189$367 – $3,139
System affiliation
Part of a system398$1,256$413 – $3,139
Independent98$937$350 – $2,238

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,588
Median cash price$1,189
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

277 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $878 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,087; most fall between $297 and $2,713.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 277 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
$211$344$878$2,260$4,890

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($211 vs $4,890).

Of the 294 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 277 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

496 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 540 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted496
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code540

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Insertion Nasal Septal Prosthesis Button.

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, “Placement of a nasal septum button (CPT 30220) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-30220-placement-of-a-nasal-septum-button