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

Nasal endoscopy with freezing treatment of nasal nerve

CPT 31243the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $6,696 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 356 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,835. Most fall between $2,567 and $10,349 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
356
States
41
Filings dated
Nov 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 356 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
$854$3,456$6,696$9,938$14,263

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($854 vs $14,263).

How the prices are spread

$705 – $985: 21 hospitals$705$985 – $1,375: 4 hospitals$1,375 – $1,921: 2 hospitals$1,375$1,921 – $2,682: 29 hospitals$2,682 – $3,746: 21 hospitals$2,682$3,746 – $5,232: 25 hospitals$5,232 – $7,306: 103 hospitals$5,232$7,306 – $10,203: 51 hospitals$10,203 – $14,249: 46 hospitals$10,203$14,249 – $19,900: 20 hospitals$14,249median $6,696price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (322 of 356 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$705$98521
$985$1,3754
$1,375$1,9212
$1,921$2,68229
$2,682$3,74621
$3,746$5,23225
$5,232$7,306103
$7,306$10,20351
$10,203$14,24946
$14,249$19,90020

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$6,696
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $6,696.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $4,212 across 19 hospitalsIL$4,212Wisconsin: median $9,938 across 13 hospitalsWI$9,938Michigan: median $2,457 across 20 hospitalsMI$2,457New York: median $7,000 across 29 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $6,218 across 12 hospitalsIA$6,218Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $6,921 across 20 hospitalsOH$6,921Pennsylvania: median $6,730 across 21 hospitalsPA$6,730New Jersey: median $6,311 across 30 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: 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 32 hospitalsCA$10,349Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,696 across 32 hospitalsTX$6,696Florida: median $2,939 across 18 hospitalsFL$2,939
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,696. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$10,349+55%$7,576 – $10,349
Wisconsin WI13$9,938+48%$2,490 – $9,938
New York NY29$7,000+5%$6,750 – $11,052
Ohio OH20$6,921+3%$772 – $13,417
Pennsylvania PA21$6,730+1%$670 – $7,050
Texas TX32$6,6960%$6,696 – $6,696
New Jersey NJ30$6,311−6%$4,327 – $6,839
Iowa IA12$6,218−7%$6,218 – $6,218
Illinois IL19$4,212−37%$2,311 – $28,348
Florida FL18$2,939−56%$2,732 – $10,781
Michigan MI20$2,457−63%$2,457 – $8,140
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not 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 $6,696.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care320$6,696$2,939 – $10,349
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access30$6,696$2,311 – $11,304
Ownership
For-profit43$6,696$2,311 – $13,390
Government46$7,000$4,320 – $10,043
Non-profit266$6,696$2,457 – $10,349
System affiliation
Part of a system323$6,696$2,457 – $10,349
Independent33$7,565$4,212 – $13,390

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$10,260
Median cash price$6,696
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

213 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,696 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,767; most fall between $2,490 and $10,349.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 213 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
$762$2,939$6,696$9,466$11,304

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($762 vs $11,304).

Of the 250 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 213 gave a usable cash price; 35 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

356 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 398 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted356
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code398

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 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 Cryoablation 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 freezing treatment of nasal nerve (CPT 31243) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31243-nasal-endoscopy-with-freezing-treatment-of-nasal-nerve