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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Removal of an object stuck in the nose

CPT 30300the billing code this page is about

Simple removal of a foreign object from inside the nose, typically done in an office or clinic setting without general anesthesia.

Hospitals typically charge $229 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,577 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $243. Most fall between $131 and $415 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,577
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 2,577 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
$87$143$229$369$551

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($87 vs $551).

How the prices are spread

$64 – $82: 103 hospitals$64$82 – $105: 111 hospitals$105 – $135: 228 hospitals$105$135 – $174: 311 hospitals$174 – $223: 379 hospitals$174$223 – $286: 349 hospitals$286 – $368: 319 hospitals$286$368 – $472: 271 hospitals$472 – $606: 154 hospitals$472$606 – $778: 96 hospitals$606median $229price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,321 of 2,577 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$64$82103
$82$105111
$105$135228
$135$174311
$174$223379
$223$286349
$286$368319
$368$472271
$472$606154
$606$77896

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$229
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 $229.

Alaska: median $355 across 16 hospitalsAK$355Maine: median $139 across 21 hospitalsME$139Vermont: median $284 across 12 hospitalsVT$284New Hampshire: median $106 across 20 hospitalsNH$106Washington: median $274 across 79 hospitalsWA$274Idaho: median $280 across 21 hospitalsID$280Montana: median $184 across 30 hospitalsMT$184North Dakota: median $202 across 25 hospitalsND$202Minnesota: median $239 across 89 hospitalsMN$239Illinois: median $214 across 115 hospitalsIL$214Wisconsin: median $324 across 93 hospitalsWI$324Michigan: median $179 across 70 hospitalsMI$179New York: median $225 across 95 hospitalsNY$225Massachusetts: median $348 across 41 hospitalsMA$348Oregon: median $338 across 49 hospitalsOR$338Nevada: median $291 across 17 hospitalsNV$291Wyoming: median $276 across 14 hospitalsWY$276South Dakota: median $364 across 27 hospitalsSD$364Iowa: median $189 across 83 hospitalsIA$189Indiana: median $208 across 52 hospitalsIN$208Ohio: median $284 across 96 hospitalsOH$284Pennsylvania: median $231 across 112 hospitalsPA$231New Jersey: median $367 across 51 hospitalsNJ$367Connecticut: median $203 across 18 hospitalsCT$203Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $365 across 133 hospitalsCA$365Utah: median $416 across 30 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $246 across 48 hospitalsCO$246Nebraska: median $240 across 63 hospitalsNE$240Missouri: median $187 across 56 hospitalsMO$187Kentucky: median $196 across 47 hospitalsKY$196West Virginia: median $184 across 37 hospitalsWV$184Virginia: median $192 across 54 hospitalsVA$192Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $306 across 27 hospitalsAZ$306New Mexico: median $209 across 25 hospitalsNM$209Kansas: median $240 across 73 hospitalsKS$240Arkansas: median $216 across 30 hospitalsAR$216Tennessee: median $133 across 50 hospitalsTN$133North Carolina: median $128 across 56 hospitalsNC$128South Carolina: median $230 across 45 hospitalsSC$230Oklahoma: median $183 across 62 hospitalsOK$183Louisiana: median $125 across 48 hospitalsLA$125Mississippi: median $114 across 52 hospitalsMS$114Alabama: median $184 across 27 hospitalsAL$184Georgia: median $208 across 69 hospitalsGA$208Hawaii: median $353 across 16 hospitalsHI$353Texas: median $217 across 172 hospitalsTX$217Florida: median $392 across 96 hospitalsFL$392
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $229. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT30$416+81%$283 – $442
Florida FL96$392+71%$214 – $799
New Jersey NJ51$367+60%$154 – $3,986
California CA133$365+59%$210 – $543
South Dakota SD27$364+59%$207 – $423
Alaska AK16$355+55%$231 – $600
Hawaii HI16$353+54%$266 – $485
Massachusetts MA41$348+52%$154 – $541
Oregon OR49$338+47%$202 – $405
Wisconsin WI93$324+41%$140 – $614
Arizona AZ27$306+33%$234 – $552
Nevada NV17$291+27%$177 – $596
Vermont VT12$284+24%$140 – $442
Ohio OH96$284+24%$151 – $445
Idaho ID21$280+22%$98 – $442
Wyoming WY14$276+21%$140 – $383
Washington WA79$274+19%$166 – $400
Colorado CO48$246+7%$153 – $376
Kansas KS73$240+5%$135 – $538
Nebraska NE63$240+5%$164 – $379
Minnesota MN89$239+5%$162 – $452
Pennsylvania PA112$231+1%$130 – $440
South Carolina SC45$2300%$137 – $444
New York NY95$225−2%$145 – $360
Texas TX172$217−5%$120 – $345
Arkansas AR30$216−6%$61 – $261
Illinois IL115$214−6%$128 – $344
New Mexico NM25$209−9%$192 – $411
Indiana IN52$208−9%$146 – $325
Georgia GA69$208−9%$119 – $369
Connecticut CT18$203−12%$129 – $318
North Dakota ND25$202−12%$133 – $255
Kentucky KY47$196−14%$136 – $305
Virginia VA54$192−16%$106 – $278
Iowa IA83$189−17%$118 – $340
Missouri MO56$187−18%$124 – $268
Alabama AL27$184−20%$125 – $374
West Virginia WV37$184−20%$145 – $279
Montana MT30$184−20%$116 – $303
Oklahoma OK62$183−20%$106 – $290
Michigan MI70$179−22%$107 – $451
Maine ME21$139−39%$111 – $191
Tennessee TN50$133−42%$59 – $205
North Carolina NC56$128−44%$79 – $249
Louisiana LA48$125−45%$58 – $188
Mississippi MS52$114−50%$62 – $223
New Hampshire NH20$106−54%$73 – $206
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $229.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,696$221$132 – $428
Children’s55$422$170 – $638
Critical access821$231$124 – $377
Ownership
For-profit273$259$137 – $536
Government537$214$125 – $369
Non-profit1,762$229$131 – $413
System affiliation
Part of a system2,033$234$132 – $425
Independent544$214$116 – $367

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$375
Median cash price$229
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

1,894 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $236 and the average of the middle 60% is $249; most fall between $132 and $415.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,894 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
$88$144$236$370$555

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($88 vs $555).

Of the 2,026 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,894 gave a usable cash price; 47 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 85 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,577 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (65%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,759 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,577
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded96
Hospitals that filed this code2,759

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 July 20, 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 Nonoperative removal of foreign body family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Foreign Body Intranasal Office Procedure.

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 an object stuck in the nose (CPT 30300) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-30300-removal-of-an-object-stuck-in-the-nose