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

Nasal endoscopy with radiofrequency nerve treatment

CPT 31242the billing code this page is about

Endoscopic procedure through the nose using heat from radiofrequency energy to destroy the posterior nasal nerve, typically for chronic runny nose.

Hospitals typically charge $6,627 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 257 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,733. Most fall between $2,939 and $10,349 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
257
States
39
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 257 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
$1,064$3,908$6,627$10,260$12,129

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,064 vs $12,129).

How the prices are spread

$772 – $1,042: 13 hospitals$772$1,042 – $1,407: 5 hospitals$1,407 – $1,900: 2 hospitals$1,407$1,900 – $2,564: 12 hospitals$2,564 – $3,462: 13 hospitals$2,564$3,462 – $4,673: 25 hospitals$4,673 – $6,308: 27 hospitals$4,673$6,308 – $8,516: 66 hospitals$8,516 – $11,496: 55 hospitals$8,516$11,496 – $15,519: 17 hospitals$11,496median $6,627price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (235 of 257 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$772$1,04213
$1,042$1,4075
$1,407$1,9002
$1,900$2,56412
$2,564$3,46213
$3,462$4,67325
$4,673$6,30827
$6,308$8,51666
$8,516$11,49655
$11,496$15,51917

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$6,627
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.10×

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 $6,627.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $5,346 across 15 hospitalsIL$5,346Wisconsin: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $7,000 across 32 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $6,406 across 11 hospitalsIA$6,406Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $6,826 across 23 hospitalsPA$6,826New Jersey: median $6,465 across 23 hospitalsNJ$6,465Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $10,349 across 31 hospitalsCA$10,349Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $2,939 across 13 hospitalsFL$2,939
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,627. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA31$10,349+56%$5,362 – $10,349
New York NY32$7,000+6%$6,750 – $11,052
Pennsylvania PA23$6,826+3%$906 – $9,186
New Jersey NJ23$6,465−2%$4,881 – $6,839
Iowa IA11$6,406−3%$6,406 – $6,406
Illinois IL15$5,346−19%$2,381 – $8,379
Florida FL13$2,939−56%$2,939 – $16,164
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $6,627.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care228$6,826$3,736 – $10,349
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access25$4,800$1,181 – $11,304
Ownership
For-profit27$8,540$2,381 – $13,390
Government32$5,938$2,939 – $7,264
Non-profit197$6,553$3,685 – $10,349
System affiliation
Part of a system221$6,627$2,992 – $10,349
Independent36$6,494$2,500 – $10,088

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,008
Median cash price$6,627
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

153 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,548 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,977; most fall between $2,939 and $10,349.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 153 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
$1,800$3,379$6,548$10,349$11,359

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,800 vs $11,359).

Of the 178 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 153 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

257 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 296 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted257
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code296

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 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 Nasal/Sinus Ndsc Dstrj Rf Ablation Pst Nsl Nrv.

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 with radiofrequency nerve treatment (CPT 31242) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31242-nasal-endoscopy-with-radiofrequency-nerve-treatment