HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Control of epistaxis

First treatment of a nosebleed at the back of the nose

CPT 30905the billing code this page is about

Stopping bleeding from the rear of the nasal cavity using packing and/or cautery; this code covers the initial treatment session.

Hospitals typically charge $330 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,439 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $340. Most fall between $166 and $593 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,439
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 2,439 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
$126$191$330$504$880

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($126 vs $880).

How the prices are spread

$95 – $122: 98 hospitals$95$122 – $159: 228 hospitals$159 – $205: 231 hospitals$159$205 – $266: 259 hospitals$266 – $344: 334 hospitals$266$344 – $445: 361 hospitals$445 – $576: 302 hospitals$445$576 – $746: 161 hospitals$746 – $966: 163 hospitals$746$966 – $1,250: 64 hospitals$966median $330price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,201 of 2,439 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$95$12298
$122$159228
$159$205231
$205$266259
$266$344334
$344$445361
$445$576302
$576$746161
$746$966163
$966$1,25064

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$330
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $330.

Alaska: median $565 across 15 hospitalsAK$565Maine: median $201 across 19 hospitalsME$201Vermont: median $322 across 12 hospitalsVT$322New Hampshire: median $274 across 19 hospitalsNH$274Washington: median $382 across 64 hospitalsWA$382Idaho: median $296 across 20 hospitalsID$296Montana: median $306 across 29 hospitalsMT$306North Dakota: median $302 across 24 hospitalsND$302Minnesota: median $361 across 83 hospitalsMN$361Illinois: median $333 across 111 hospitalsIL$333Wisconsin: median $351 across 73 hospitalsWI$351Michigan: median $266 across 68 hospitalsMI$266New York: median $276 across 93 hospitalsNY$276Massachusetts: median $528 across 43 hospitalsMA$528Oregon: median $463 across 51 hospitalsOR$463Nevada: median $392 across 15 hospitalsNV$392Wyoming: median $396 across 14 hospitalsWY$396South Dakota: median $360 across 29 hospitalsSD$360Iowa: median $300 across 76 hospitalsIA$300Indiana: median $384 across 47 hospitalsIN$384Ohio: median $352 across 96 hospitalsOH$352Pennsylvania: median $360 across 98 hospitalsPA$360New Jersey: median $600 across 49 hospitalsNJ$600Connecticut: median $324 across 16 hospitalsCT$324Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $477 across 131 hospitalsCA$477Utah: median $864 across 32 hospitalsUT$864Colorado: median $373 across 48 hospitalsCO$373Nebraska: median $358 across 62 hospitalsNE$358Missouri: median $191 across 52 hospitalsMO$191Kentucky: median $253 across 42 hospitalsKY$253West Virginia: median $227 across 37 hospitalsWV$227Virginia: median $273 across 52 hospitalsVA$273Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $469 across 27 hospitalsAZ$469New Mexico: median $273 across 25 hospitalsNM$273Kansas: median $311 across 66 hospitalsKS$311Arkansas: median $319 across 27 hospitalsAR$319Tennessee: median $224 across 51 hospitalsTN$224North Carolina: median $196 across 52 hospitalsNC$196South Carolina: median $267 across 44 hospitalsSC$267Oklahoma: median $242 across 59 hospitalsOK$242Louisiana: median $150 across 41 hospitalsLA$150Mississippi: median $175 across 44 hospitalsMS$175Alabama: median $240 across 25 hospitalsAL$240Georgia: median $317 across 80 hospitalsGA$317Hawaii: median $423 across 15 hospitalsHI$423Texas: median $358 across 162 hospitalsTX$358Florida: median $400 across 88 hospitalsFL$400
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $330. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT32$864+162%$257 – $939
New Jersey NJ49$600+82%$152 – $4,350
Alaska AK15$565+71%$231 – $1,050
Massachusetts MA43$528+60%$279 – $1,676
California CA131$477+45%$276 – $750
Arizona AZ27$469+42%$311 – $907
Oregon OR51$463+40%$271 – $630
Hawaii HI15$423+28%$308 – $528
Florida FL88$400+21%$279 – $735
Wyoming WY14$396+20%$136 – $694
Nevada NV15$392+19%$144 – $501
Indiana IN47$384+16%$255 – $730
Washington WA64$382+16%$275 – $756
Colorado CO48$373+13%$232 – $769
Minnesota MN83$361+9%$257 – $466
Pennsylvania PA98$360+9%$152 – $992
South Dakota SD29$360+9%$258 – $474
Texas TX162$358+9%$133 – $532
Nebraska NE62$358+8%$253 – $687
Ohio OH96$352+7%$157 – $484
Wisconsin WI73$351+6%$213 – $471
Illinois IL111$333+1%$151 – $638
Connecticut CT16$324−2%$191 – $560
Vermont VT12$322−2%$167 – $578
Arkansas AR27$319−3%$113 – $501
Georgia GA80$317−4%$128 – $529
Kansas KS66$311−6%$156 – $438
Montana MT29$306−7%$186 – $449
North Dakota ND24$302−8%$159 – $549
Iowa IA76$300−9%$217 – $449
Idaho ID20$296−10%$92 – $565
New York NY93$276−16%$153 – $486
New Hampshire NH19$274−17%$124 – $665
New Mexico NM25$273−17%$134 – $1,143
Virginia VA52$273−17%$242 – $441
South Carolina SC44$267−19%$194 – $368
Michigan MI68$266−19%$169 – $417
Kentucky KY42$253−23%$155 – $470
Oklahoma OK59$242−27%$160 – $504
Alabama AL25$240−27%$118 – $522
West Virginia WV37$227−31%$153 – $370
Tennessee TN51$224−32%$150 – $344
Maine ME19$201−39%$115 – $470
North Carolina NC52$196−41%$134 – $376
Missouri MO52$191−42%$117 – $606
Mississippi MS44$175−47%$80 – $228
Louisiana LA41$150−55%$69 – $242
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $330.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,639$328$157 – $630
Children’s34$473$299 – $864
Critical access759$323$176 – $504
Ownership
For-profit260$430$168 – $911
Government505$302$162 – $501
Non-profit1,667$328$166 – $574
System affiliation
Part of a system1,933$343$170 – $609
Independent506$293$150 – $542

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$516
Median cash price$330
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

1,809 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $344 and the average of the middle 60% is $352; most fall between $178 and $602.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,809 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
$132$207$344$512$880

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($132 vs $880).

Of the 1,936 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,809 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 78 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,439 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (62%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,604 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,439
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded86
Hospitals that filed this code2,604

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 Ctrl Nsl Hemrrg Pst Nasal Packs&/Cautery 1st.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “First treatment of a nosebleed at the back of the nose (CPT 30905) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-30905-first-treatment-of-a-nosebleed-at-the-back-of-the-nose