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

Endoscopic frontal sinus surgery with tissue removal

CPT 31276the billing code this page is about

Endoscopic surgery through the nose that explores the frontal sinus above the eye, with removal of tissue when present.

Hospitals typically charge $3,447 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 695 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,300. Most fall between $944 and $9,923 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
695
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 695 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
$664$1,091$3,447$9,237$18,956

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($664 vs $18,956).

How the prices are spread

$557 – $838: 72 hospitals$557$838 – $1,259: 95 hospitals$1,259 – $1,891: 58 hospitals$1,259$1,891 – $2,842: 52 hospitals$2,842 – $4,270: 67 hospitals$2,842$4,270 – $6,416: 54 hospitals$6,416 – $9,642: 98 hospitals$6,416$9,642 – $14,488: 62 hospitals$14,488 – $21,770: 49 hospitals$14,488$21,770 – $32,712: 20 hospitals$21,770median $3,447price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (627 of 695 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$557$83872
$838$1,25995
$1,259$1,89158
$1,891$2,84252
$2,842$4,27067
$4,270$6,41654
$6,416$9,64298
$9,642$14,48862
$14,488$21,77049
$21,770$32,71220

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$7,210
Median cash price$3,447
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.48×

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 $3,447.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $17,449 across 11 hospitalsID$17,449Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,204 across 23 hospitalsMN$3,204Illinois: median $1,437 across 25 hospitalsIL$1,437Wisconsin: median $2,001 across 32 hospitalsWI$2,001Michigan: median $1,116 across 38 hospitalsMI$1,116New York: median $8,192 across 55 hospitalsNY$8,192Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,085 across 13 hospitalsOR$1,085Nevada: 5 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 $944 across 25 hospitalsIA$944Indiana: median $1,962 across 15 hospitalsIN$1,962Ohio: median $14,077 across 35 hospitalsOH$14,077Pennsylvania: median $4,323 across 30 hospitalsPA$4,323New Jersey: median $7,662 across 33 hospitalsNJ$7,662Connecticut: 3 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 $5,607 across 53 hospitalsCA$5,607Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,431 across 11 hospitalsNE$1,431Missouri: median $5,348 across 23 hospitalsMO$5,348Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,398 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,398Virginia: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $7,603 across 11 hospitalsKS$7,603Arkansas: median $1,323 across 10 hospitalsAR$1,323Tennessee: median $886 across 10 hospitalsTN$886North Carolina: median $4,139 across 12 hospitalsNC$4,139South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $797 across 14 hospitalsOK$797Louisiana: median $5,428 across 14 hospitalsLA$5,428Mississippi: median $3,008 across 13 hospitalsMS$3,008Alabama: median $5,850 across 11 hospitalsAL$5,850Georgia: median $6,698 across 16 hospitalsGA$6,698Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,107 across 34 hospitalsTX$5,107Florida: median $12,411 across 13 hospitalsFL$12,411
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,447. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$17,449+406%$2,369 – $17,730
Ohio OH35$14,077+308%$1,382 – $33,330
Florida FL13$12,411+260%$1,931 – $19,010
New York NY55$8,192+138%$1,674 – $9,188
New Jersey NJ33$7,662+122%$4,881 – $9,131
Kansas KS11$7,603+121%$870 – $12,027
Georgia GA16$6,698+94%$1,658 – $7,647
Alabama AL11$5,850+70%$1,776 – $18,740
California CA53$5,607+63%$2,341 – $9,923
Louisiana LA14$5,428+57%$1,969 – $9,783
Missouri MO23$5,348+55%$820 – $18,718
Texas TX34$5,107+48%$3,447 – $16,847
Pennsylvania PA30$4,323+25%$243 – $12,532
North Carolina NC12$4,139+20%$1,366 – $6,712
Minnesota MN23$3,204−7%$934 – $4,095
Mississippi MS13$3,008−13%$1,558 – $15,626
Wisconsin WI32$2,001−42%$2,001 – $4,425
Indiana IN15$1,962−43%$998 – $13,676
Illinois IL25$1,437−58%$705 – $41,054
Nebraska NE11$1,431−58%$860 – $2,712
West Virginia WV11$1,398−59%$1,022 – $3,782
Arkansas AR10$1,323−62%$902 – $8,098
Michigan MI38$1,116−68%$616 – $9,704
Oregon OR13$1,085−69%$687 – $6,268
Iowa IA25$944−73%$944 – $2,085
Tennessee TN10$886−74%$476 – $8,824
Oklahoma OK14$797−77%$797 – $14,114
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $3,447.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care566$4,378$976 – $10,823
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access116$1,661$886 – $4,425
Ownership
For-profit89$6,298$1,804 – $16,847
Government106$1,630$874 – $8,192
Non-profit498$3,447$944 – $9,923
System affiliation
Part of a system553$3,963$971 – $10,507
Independent142$1,714$900 – $8,184

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,641
Median cash price$3,447
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 $1,674 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,332; most fall between $797 and $7,300.

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
$633$908$1,674$5,824$10,181

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($633 vs $10,181).

Of the 346 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 310 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

695 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 767 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted695
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code767

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 Nasal/Sinus Ndsc W/Rmvl Tiss From Frontal Sinus.

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, “Endoscopic frontal sinus surgery with tissue removal (CPT 31276) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31276-endoscopic-frontal-sinus-surgery-with-tissue-removal