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

Release of scar bands inside the nose

CPT 30560the billing code this page is about

Cutting or freeing internal scar tissue that has bridged surfaces inside the nose and narrowed the airway.

Hospitals typically charge $640 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 549 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $783. Most fall between $338 and $1,669 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
549
States
48
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 549 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
$235$385$640$1,480$3,395

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($235 vs $3,395).

How the prices are spread

$167 – $250: 43 hospitals$167$250 – $375: 67 hospitals$375 – $561: 87 hospitals$375$561 – $841: 127 hospitals$841 – $1,260: 44 hospitals$841$1,260 – $1,887: 58 hospitals$1,887 – $2,827: 35 hospitals$1,887$2,827 – $4,236: 16 hospitals$4,236 – $6,345: 14 hospitals$4,236$6,345 – $9,505: 6 hospitals$6,345median $640price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (497 of 549 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$167$25043
$250$37567
$375$56187
$561$841127
$841$1,26044
$1,260$1,88758
$1,887$2,82735
$2,827$4,23616
$4,236$6,34514
$6,345$9,5056

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$551
Median cash price$640
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $640.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $541 across 10 hospitalsID$541Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $546 across 20 hospitalsMN$546Illinois: median $352 across 23 hospitalsIL$352Wisconsin: median $1,125 across 44 hospitalsWI$1,125Michigan: median $183 across 30 hospitalsMI$183New York: median $603 across 38 hospitalsNY$603Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $571 across 11 hospitalsOR$571Nevada: 3 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 $714 across 21 hospitalsIA$714Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $660 across 30 hospitalsOH$660Pennsylvania: median $601 across 27 hospitalsPA$601New Jersey: median $3,786 across 34 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,240 across 37 hospitalsCA$2,240Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $372 across 10 hospitalsMO$372Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $246 across 14 hospitalsOK$246Louisiana: median $500 across 12 hospitalsLA$500Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $500 across 10 hospitalsGA$500Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $834 across 26 hospitalsTX$834Florida: median $1,904 across 10 hospitalsFL$1,904
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $640. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ34$3,786+491%$564 – $6,839
California CA37$2,240+250%$365 – $2,240
Florida FL10$1,904+197%$341 – $11,341
Wisconsin WI44$1,125+76%$468 – $1,669
Texas TX26$834+30%$834 – $1,294
Iowa IA21$714+12%$714 – $1,424
Ohio OH30$660+3%$341 – $3,098
New York NY38$603−6%$413 – $935
Pennsylvania PA27$601−6%$96 – $791
Oregon OR11$571−11%$546 – $902
Minnesota MN20$546−15%$343 – $642
Idaho ID10$541−15%$335 – $1,423
Georgia GA10$500−22%$500 – $563
Louisiana LA12$500−22%$265 – $773
Missouri MO10$372−42%$352 – $697
Illinois IL23$352−45%$260 – $1,400
Oklahoma OK14$246−62%$246 – $1,038
Michigan MI30$183−71%$167 – $1,124
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $640.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care438$640$335 – $2,064
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access99$642$343 – $1,501
Ownership
For-profit56$773$335 – $1,669
Government81$604$412 – $1,330
Non-profit411$637$331 – $1,669
System affiliation
Part of a system433$673$341 – $1,879
Independent116$539$320 – $1,006

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$898
Median cash price$640
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

314 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $637 and the average of the middle 60% is $795; most fall between $344 and $1,669.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 314 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
$255$385$637$1,423$2,240

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($255 vs $2,240).

Of the 342 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 314 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

549 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 603 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted549
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code603

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 Lysis Intranasal Synechia.

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, “Release of scar bands inside the nose (CPT 30560) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-30560-release-of-scar-bands-inside-the-nose