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

Removal of an object from the nose under general anesthesia

CPT 30310the billing code this page is about

Removal of a foreign object from inside the nose in a case that requires the patient to be put fully to sleep.

Hospitals typically charge $1,456 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 719 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,928. Most fall between $362 and $5,088 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
719
States
47
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 719 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
$245$421$1,456$4,260$7,190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($245 vs $7,190).

How the prices are spread

$190 – $280: 55 hospitals$190$280 – $414: 87 hospitals$414 – $612: 72 hospitals$414$612 – $904: 62 hospitals$904 – $1,334: 32 hospitals$904$1,334 – $1,971: 61 hospitals$1,971 – $2,911: 41 hospitals$1,971$2,911 – $4,299: 96 hospitals$4,299 – $6,349: 82 hospitals$4,299$6,349 – $9,377: 61 hospitals$6,349median $1,456price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (649 of 719 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$190$28055
$280$41487
$414$61272
$612$90462
$904$1,33432
$1,334$1,97161
$1,971$2,91141
$2,911$4,29996
$4,299$6,34982
$6,349$9,37761

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$1,456
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.43×

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 $1,456.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,158 across 22 hospitalsWA$2,158Idaho: median $2,187 across 10 hospitalsID$2,187Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $841 across 30 hospitalsMN$841Illinois: median $800 across 29 hospitalsIL$800Wisconsin: median $1,010 across 29 hospitalsWI$1,010Michigan: median $304 across 33 hospitalsMI$304New York: median $3,387 across 37 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $629 across 24 hospitalsOR$629Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $500 across 25 hospitalsIA$500Indiana: median $326 across 13 hospitalsIN$326Ohio: median $4,841 across 24 hospitalsOH$4,841Pennsylvania: median $1,981 across 19 hospitalsPA$1,981New Jersey: median $4,075 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,075Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,518 across 71 hospitalsCA$3,518Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $755 across 15 hospitalsNE$755Missouri: median $308 across 13 hospitalsMO$308Kentucky: median $395 across 10 hospitalsKY$395West Virginia: median $533 across 19 hospitalsWV$533Virginia: median $1,375 across 11 hospitalsVA$1,375Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $3,061 across 11 hospitalsNM$3,061Kansas: median $509 across 17 hospitalsKS$509Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $2,420 across 15 hospitalsNC$2,420South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $326 across 23 hospitalsOK$326Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,609 across 13 hospitalsGA$4,609Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,309 across 37 hospitalsTX$2,309Florida: median $5,571 across 18 hospitalsFL$5,571
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,456. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL18$5,571+283%$4,457 – $5,571
Ohio OH24$4,841+232%$514 – $9,697
Georgia GA13$4,609+217%$770 – $4,609
New Jersey NJ32$4,075+180%$3,590 – $5,553
California CA71$3,518+142%$1,456 – $7,190
New York NY37$3,387+133%$368 – $3,935
New Mexico NM11$3,061+110%$328 – $5,733
North Carolina NC15$2,420+66%$362 – $3,695
Texas TX37$2,309+59%$1,766 – $5,165
Idaho ID10$2,187+50%$563 – $8,795
Washington WA22$2,158+48%$442 – $4,260
Pennsylvania PA19$1,981+36%$96 – $6,111
Virginia VA11$1,375−6%$83 – $1,650
Wisconsin WI29$1,010−31%$822 – $1,489
Minnesota MN30$841−42%$355 – $3,218
Illinois IL29$800−45%$251 – $6,655
Nebraska NE15$755−48%$353 – $2,934
Oregon OR24$629−57%$378 – $8,478
West Virginia WV19$533−63%$208 – $2,973
Kansas KS17$509−65%$405 – $2,187
Iowa IA25$500−66%$409 – $617
Kentucky KY10$395−73%$251 – $2,014
Indiana IN13$326−78%$251 – $1,451
Oklahoma OK23$326−78%$326 – $3,261
Missouri MO13$308−79%$288 – $1,515
Michigan MI33$304−79%$206 – $4,559
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,456.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care533$2,213$378 – $5,571
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access169$509$288 – $1,787
Ownership
For-profit70$2,671$363 – $6,038
Government122$727$367 – $3,838
Non-profit527$1,456$350 – $5,209
System affiliation
Part of a system566$1,700$353 – $5,548
Independent153$692$378 – $3,434

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,771
Median cash price$1,456
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

428 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,317 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,653; most fall between $326 and $4,784.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 428 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
$228$375$1,317$4,029$7,190

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($228 vs $7,190).

Of the 463 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 428 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

719 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 784 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted719
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 — excluded24
Hospitals that filed this code784

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 PR Remv Nasal for Body,Gen Anesth.

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 from the nose under general anesthesia (CPT 30310) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-30310-removal-of-an-object-from-the-nose-under-general-anesthesia