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

Nasal endoscopy to reduce an enlarged air-filled turbinate

CPT 31240the billing code this page is about

Surgery using a scope through the nose to trim an air-filled swelling of the middle turbinate that blocks nasal airflow or sinus drainage.

Hospitals typically charge $1,818 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 675 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,305. Most fall between $381 and $6,944 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
675
States
50
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 675 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
$280$454$1,818$5,110$16,714

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 60× what the cheapest tenth charges ($280 vs $16,714).

How the prices are spread

$193 – $311: 58 hospitals$193$311 – $503: 98 hospitals$503 – $812: 87 hospitals$503$812 – $1,312: 27 hospitals$1,312 – $2,120: 86 hospitals$1,312$2,120 – $3,426: 63 hospitals$3,426 – $5,535: 64 hospitals$3,426$5,535 – $8,943: 57 hospitals$8,943 – $14,449: 28 hospitals$8,943$14,449 – $23,345: 41 hospitals$14,449median $1,818price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (609 of 675 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$193$31158
$311$50398
$503$81287
$812$1,31227
$1,312$2,12086
$2,120$3,42663
$3,426$5,53564
$5,535$8,94357
$8,943$14,44928
$14,449$23,34541

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,818
Median cash price$1,818
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $1,818.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,602 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,602Idaho: median $4,755 across 12 hospitalsID$4,755Montana: 3 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 $953 across 25 hospitalsMN$953Illinois: median $357 across 25 hospitalsIL$357Wisconsin: median $1,568 across 33 hospitalsWI$1,568Michigan: median $552 across 33 hospitalsMI$552New York: median $2,041 across 54 hospitalsNY$2,041Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $291 across 11 hospitalsOR$291Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $393 across 26 hospitalsIA$393Indiana: median $506 across 14 hospitalsIN$506Ohio: median $5,918 across 29 hospitalsOH$5,918Pennsylvania: median $1,819 across 27 hospitalsPA$1,819New Jersey: median $4,544 across 34 hospitalsNJ$4,544Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,278 across 54 hospitalsCA$2,278Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $3,729 across 21 hospitalsMO$3,729Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,692 across 15 hospitalsWV$1,692Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $718 across 11 hospitalsKS$718Arkansas: median $758 across 12 hospitalsAR$758Tennessee: median $281 across 10 hospitalsTN$281North Carolina: median $1,776 across 10 hospitalsNC$1,776South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $334 across 16 hospitalsOK$334Louisiana: median $2,504 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,504Mississippi: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $1,800 across 11 hospitalsAL$1,800Georgia: median $5,849 across 14 hospitalsGA$5,849Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,518 across 34 hospitalsTX$2,518Florida: median $7,201 across 15 hospitalsFL$7,201
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,818. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL15$7,201+296%$746 – $17,486
Ohio OH29$5,918+225%$593 – $26,251
Georgia GA14$5,849+222%$797 – $5,849
Idaho ID12$4,755+161%$2,295 – $4,755
New Jersey NJ34$4,544+150%$1,910 – $8,032
Missouri MO21$3,729+105%$254 – $15,095
Texas TX34$2,518+38%$1,707 – $6,105
Louisiana LA11$2,504+38%$1,619 – $9,604
California CA54$2,278+25%$780 – $6,944
New York NY54$2,041+12%$495 – $4,595
Pennsylvania PA27$1,8190%$103 – $3,714
Alabama AL11$1,800−1%$464 – $15,677
North Carolina NC10$1,776−2%$496 – $2,793
West Virginia WV15$1,692−7%$440 – $2,098
Washington WA11$1,602−12%$289 – $4,301
Wisconsin WI33$1,568−14%$738 – $2,896
Minnesota MN25$953−48%$331 – $1,251
Arkansas AR12$758−58%$604 – $2,197
Kansas KS11$718−61%$321 – $5,729
Michigan MI33$552−70%$426 – $2,447
Indiana IN14$506−72%$353 – $11,578
Iowa IA26$393−78%$363 – $622
Illinois IL25$357−80%$280 – $6,718
Oklahoma OK16$334−82%$334 – $3,516
Oregon OR11$291−84%$291 – $460
Tennessee TN10$281−85%$151 – $6,369
Mississippi MS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,818.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care548$2,041$414 – $7,201
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access115$738$321 – $2,107
Ownership
For-profit85$2,779$920 – $13,915
Government104$797$288 – $3,467
Non-profit485$1,692$384 – $6,944
System affiliation
Part of a system540$1,918$393 – $6,944
Independent135$1,141$325 – $3,478

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,500
Median cash price$1,818
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

310 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $643 and the average of the middle 60% is $910; most fall between $315 and $3,033.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 310 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$340$643$2,518$5,849

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($228 vs $5,849).

Of the 334 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 310 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

675 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 732 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted675
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code732

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 PR Nasal/Sinus Scopy,Rmv Concha Bull.

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, “Nasal endoscopy to reduce an enlarged air-filled turbinate (CPT 31240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31240-nasal-endoscopy-to-reduce-an-enlarged-air-filled-turbinate