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Procedure price report · Control of epistaxis

Complex treatment of a nosebleed at the front of the nose

CPT 30903the billing code this page is about

Stopping bleeding from the front of the nasal cavity with extensive cautery and/or packing, more involved than a simple treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $302 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,416 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $310. Most fall between $154 and $498 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,416
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 2,416 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
$114$175$302$459$730

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($114 vs $730).

How the prices are spread

$84 – $109: 99 hospitals$84$109 – $140: 172 hospitals$140 – $180: 238 hospitals$140$180 – $231: 257 hospitals$231 – $297: 304 hospitals$231$297 – $382: 315 hospitals$382 – $492: 417 hospitals$382$492 – $633: 199 hospitals$633 – $814: 96 hospitals$633$814 – $1,048: 79 hospitals$814median $302price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,176 of 2,416 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$84$10999
$109$140172
$140$180238
$180$231257
$231$297304
$297$382315
$382$492417
$492$633199
$633$81496
$814$1,04879

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$302
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.2×

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 $302.

Alaska: median $526 across 13 hospitalsAK$526Maine: median $163 across 21 hospitalsME$163Vermont: median $372 across 12 hospitalsVT$372New Hampshire: median $185 across 17 hospitalsNH$185Washington: median $350 across 61 hospitalsWA$350Idaho: median $296 across 22 hospitalsID$296Montana: median $269 across 30 hospitalsMT$269North Dakota: median $225 across 27 hospitalsND$225Minnesota: median $293 across 94 hospitalsMN$293Illinois: median $308 across 107 hospitalsIL$308Wisconsin: median $286 across 83 hospitalsWI$286Michigan: median $186 across 71 hospitalsMI$186New York: median $228 across 93 hospitalsNY$228Massachusetts: median $336 across 42 hospitalsMA$336Oregon: median $356 across 48 hospitalsOR$356Nevada: median $291 across 15 hospitalsNV$291Wyoming: median $229 across 14 hospitalsWY$229South Dakota: median $342 across 33 hospitalsSD$342Iowa: median $266 across 78 hospitalsIA$266Indiana: median $300 across 47 hospitalsIN$300Ohio: median $371 across 98 hospitalsOH$371Pennsylvania: median $471 across 105 hospitalsPA$471New Jersey: median $600 across 43 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $292 across 17 hospitalsCT$292Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $459 across 128 hospitalsCA$459Utah: median $416 across 28 hospitalsUT$416Colorado: median $347 across 49 hospitalsCO$347Nebraska: median $321 across 66 hospitalsNE$321Missouri: median $281 across 47 hospitalsMO$281Kentucky: median $260 across 38 hospitalsKY$260West Virginia: median $221 across 35 hospitalsWV$221Virginia: median $252 across 54 hospitalsVA$252Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $272 across 25 hospitalsAZ$272New Mexico: median $285 across 25 hospitalsNM$285Kansas: median $306 across 62 hospitalsKS$306Arkansas: median $402 across 23 hospitalsAR$402Tennessee: median $208 across 43 hospitalsTN$208North Carolina: median $256 across 54 hospitalsNC$256South Carolina: median $332 across 43 hospitalsSC$332Oklahoma: median $192 across 58 hospitalsOK$192Louisiana: median $154 across 41 hospitalsLA$154Mississippi: median $106 across 39 hospitalsMS$106Alabama: median $182 across 23 hospitalsAL$182Georgia: median $317 across 80 hospitalsGA$317Hawaii: median $432 across 13 hospitalsHI$432Texas: median $339 across 150 hospitalsTX$339Florida: median $476 across 87 hospitalsFL$476
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $302. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ43$600+99%$152 – $4,627
Alaska AK13$526+74%$275 – $761
Florida FL87$476+58%$263 – $787
Pennsylvania PA105$471+56%$151 – $1,067
California CA128$459+52%$256 – $656
Hawaii HI13$432+43%$308 – $502
Utah UT28$416+38%$363 – $466
Arkansas AR23$402+33%$133 – $501
Vermont VT12$372+23%$172 – $620
Ohio OH98$371+23%$227 – $509
Oregon OR48$356+18%$171 – $439
Washington WA61$350+16%$200 – $607
Colorado CO49$347+15%$180 – $557
South Dakota SD33$342+13%$199 – $458
Texas TX150$339+12%$150 – $614
Massachusetts MA42$336+11%$258 – $764
South Carolina SC43$332+10%$172 – $351
Nebraska NE66$321+6%$239 – $505
Georgia GA80$317+5%$155 – $670
Illinois IL107$308+2%$150 – $536
Kansas KS62$306+1%$149 – $600
Indiana IN47$300−1%$219 – $414
Idaho ID22$296−2%$138 – $360
Minnesota MN94$293−3%$182 – $472
Connecticut CT17$292−3%$186 – $450
Nevada NV15$291−4%$144 – $474
Wisconsin WI83$286−5%$177 – $442
New Mexico NM25$285−6%$182 – $650
Missouri MO47$281−7%$120 – $458
Arizona AZ25$272−10%$163 – $840
Montana MT30$269−11%$150 – $330
Iowa IA78$266−12%$153 – $392
Kentucky KY38$260−14%$138 – $414
North Carolina NC54$256−15%$147 – $365
Virginia VA54$252−16%$109 – $468
Wyoming WY14$229−24%$99 – $480
New York NY93$228−25%$153 – $450
North Dakota ND27$225−25%$162 – $365
West Virginia WV35$221−27%$111 – $373
Tennessee TN43$208−31%$130 – $220
Oklahoma OK58$192−36%$107 – $384
Michigan MI71$186−38%$97 – $391
New Hampshire NH17$185−39%$97 – $263
Alabama AL23$182−40%$100 – $519
Maine ME21$163−46%$117 – $258
Louisiana LA41$154−49%$99 – $320
Mississippi MS39$106−65%$56 – $269
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $302.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,610$319$153 – $547
Children’s32$299$205 – $633
Critical access769$286$156 – $456
Ownership
For-profit237$359$164 – $735
Government512$263$137 – $474
Non-profit1,662$311$158 – $484
System affiliation
Part of a system1,932$317$159 – $501
Independent484$265$133 – $486

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$480
Median cash price$302
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

1,808 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $328 and the average of the middle 60% is $332; most fall between $177 and $528.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,808 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
$125$197$328$472$772

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($125 vs $772).

Of the 1,935 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,808 gave a usable cash price; 51 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 76 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,416 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,582 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,416
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here77
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded83
Hospitals that filed this code2,582

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 Control of epistaxis family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Control Nasal Hemorrhage Anterior Complex.

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, “Complex treatment of a nosebleed at the front of the nose (CPT 30903) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-30903-complex-treatment-of-a-nosebleed-at-the-front-of-the-nose