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Laryngoscopy with vocal cord tumor removal, microscope

CPT 31541the billing code this page is about

A scope is passed into the throat to remove a growth from the voice box or strip tissue from the vocal cords or epiglottis, with an operating microscope or telescope.

Hospitals typically charge $3,727 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 672 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,385. Most fall between $656 and $7,101 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
672
States
49
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 672 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
$499$880$3,727$6,028$12,584

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($499 vs $12,584).

How the prices are spread

$398 – $581: 73 hospitals$398$581 – $847: 56 hospitals$847 – $1,236: 66 hospitals$847$1,236 – $1,802: 32 hospitals$1,802 – $2,629: 39 hospitals$1,802$2,629 – $3,834: 52 hospitals$3,834 – $5,591: 141 hospitals$3,834$5,591 – $8,154: 61 hospitals$8,154 – $11,892: 45 hospitals$8,154$11,892 – $17,343: 53 hospitals$11,892median $3,727price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (618 of 672 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$398$58173
$581$84756
$847$1,23666
$1,236$1,80232
$1,802$2,62939
$2,629$3,83452
$3,834$5,591141
$5,591$8,15461
$8,154$11,89245
$11,892$17,34353

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,809
Median cash price$3,727
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.98×

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 $3,727.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $8,757 across 11 hospitalsID$8,757Montana: 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 $2,620 across 22 hospitalsMN$2,620Illinois: median $1,117 across 29 hospitalsIL$1,117Wisconsin: median $1,887 across 34 hospitalsWI$1,887Michigan: median $1,268 across 36 hospitalsMI$1,268New York: median $4,363 across 53 hospitalsNY$4,363Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $478 across 11 hospitalsOR$478Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $653 across 24 hospitalsIA$653Indiana: median $1,007 across 22 hospitalsIN$1,007Ohio: median $6,596 across 34 hospitalsOH$6,596Pennsylvania: median $5,942 across 17 hospitalsPA$5,942New Jersey: median $4,350 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 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 $5,314 across 55 hospitalsCA$5,314Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $4,409 across 18 hospitalsMO$4,409Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,064 across 13 hospitalsWV$3,064Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $6,555 across 10 hospitalsAZ$6,555New Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $2,764 across 12 hospitalsAR$2,764Tennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $3,071 across 11 hospitalsNC$3,071South Carolina: median $7,101 across 14 hospitalsSC$7,101Oklahoma: median $554 across 15 hospitalsOK$554Louisiana: median $3,893 across 15 hospitalsLA$3,893Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $8,590 across 16 hospitalsGA$8,590Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,363 across 31 hospitalsTX$4,363Florida: median $5,404 across 11 hospitalsFL$5,404
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,727. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID11$8,757+135%$2,318 – $9,904
Georgia GA16$8,590+130%$3,300 – $8,590
South Carolina SC14$7,101+91%$1,930 – $7,101
Ohio OH34$6,596+77%$957 – $15,045
Arizona AZ10$6,555+76%$258 – $6,954
Pennsylvania PA17$5,942+59%$2,022 – $7,940
Florida FL11$5,404+45%$1,175 – $6,451
California CA55$5,314+43%$2,284 – $17,343
Missouri MO18$4,409+18%$422 – $9,902
Texas TX31$4,363+17%$3,818 – $6,259
New York NY53$4,363+17%$800 – $4,595
New Jersey NJ32$4,350+17%$4,029 – $5,339
Louisiana LA15$3,893+4%$1,528 – $6,200
North Carolina NC11$3,071−18%$920 – $6,124
West Virginia WV13$3,064−18%$739 – $4,716
Arkansas AR12$2,764−26%$855 – $3,830
Minnesota MN22$2,620−30%$631 – $2,820
Wisconsin WI34$1,887−49%$1,220 – $4,786
Michigan MI36$1,268−66%$997 – $5,127
Illinois IL29$1,117−70%$466 – $13,972
Indiana IN22$1,007−73%$542 – $1,361
Iowa IA24$653−82%$653 – $3,864
Oklahoma OK15$554−85%$554 – $3,564
Oregon OR11$478−87%$478 – $755
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $3,727.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care543$4,319$800 – $8,192
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access112$1,220$542 – $4,280
Ownership
For-profit86$4,987$1,814 – $9,948
Government99$2,281$546 – $5,191
Non-profit485$3,689$653 – $7,101
System affiliation
Part of a system537$3,864$729 – $8,192
Independent135$1,762$533 – $5,608

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,099
Median cash price$3,727
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

336 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,056 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,972; most fall between $509 and $5,379.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 336 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
$338$542$1,056$5,103$8,590

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($338 vs $8,590).

Of the 371 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 336 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

672 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 751 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted672
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code751

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 respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Largsc Exc Tum&/Strpg Cords/Epigl Mcrscp/Tlscp.

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, “Laryngoscopy with vocal cord tumor removal, microscope (CPT 31541) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31541-laryngoscopy-with-vocal-cord-tumor-removal-microscope