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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Flexible voice box scope with destruction of a lesion

CPT 31572the billing code this page is about

A flexible scope is passed through the nose or mouth to the voice box and a lesion is destroyed, for example with a laser.

Hospitals typically charge $4,363 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 371 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,335. Most fall between $1,266 and $7,421 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
371
States
44
Filings dated
Apr 2025 – 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 371 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
$704$1,837$4,363$6,638$9,738

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($704 vs $9,738).

How the prices are spread

$520 – $705: 33 hospitals$520$705 – $956: 12 hospitals$956 – $1,297: 20 hospitals$956$1,297 – $1,759: 14 hospitals$1,759 – $2,385: 19 hospitals$1,759$2,385 – $3,235: 14 hospitals$3,235 – $4,388: 70 hospitals$3,235$4,388 – $5,951: 62 hospitals$5,951 – $8,071: 63 hospitals$5,951$8,071 – $10,946: 33 hospitals$8,071median $4,363price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (340 of 371 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$520$70533
$705$95612
$956$1,29720
$1,297$1,75914
$1,759$2,38519
$2,385$3,23514
$3,235$4,38870
$4,388$5,95162
$5,951$8,07163
$8,071$10,94633

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,809
Median cash price$4,363
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.15×

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 $4,363.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,266 across 21 hospitalsIL$1,266Wisconsin: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $4,912 across 12 hospitalsMI$4,912New York: median $4,363 across 23 hospitalsNY$4,363Massachusetts: 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: 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 $1,266 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,266Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $6,298 across 22 hospitalsOH$6,298Pennsylvania: median $5,379 across 12 hospitalsPA$5,379New Jersey: median $4,627 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,111 across 46 hospitalsCA$4,111Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital 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: median $4,839 across 15 hospitalsSC$4,839Oklahoma: median $704 across 16 hospitalsOK$704Louisiana: median $1,871 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,871Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $4,240 across 15 hospitalsGA$4,240Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,421 across 34 hospitalsTX$7,421Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,363. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX34$7,421+70%$6,816 – $7,569
Ohio OH22$6,298+44%$3,887 – $6,338
Pennsylvania PA12$5,379+23%$2,357 – $7,542
Michigan MI12$4,912+13%$622 – $5,127
South Carolina SC15$4,839+11%$4,839 – $4,839
New Jersey NJ30$4,627+6%$4,081 – $5,339
New York NY23$4,3630%$2,031 – $4,425
Georgia GA15$4,240−3%$4,240 – $4,931
California CA46$4,111−6%$3,370 – $9,738
Louisiana LA11$1,871−57%$1,509 – $2,461
Iowa IA14$1,266−71%$1,266 – $2,668
Illinois IL21$1,266−71%$520 – $7,082
Oklahoma OK16$704−84%$704 – $3,099
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not 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
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $4,363.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care336$4,363$1,631 – $7,421
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access23$4,363$622 – $7,569
Ownership
For-profit32$4,240$559 – $7,421
Government48$4,363$2,089 – $7,044
Non-profit290$4,363$1,266 – $7,299
System affiliation
Part of a system324$4,417$1,631 – $7,421
Independent47$2,357$467 – $4,575

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,816
Median cash price$4,363
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

274 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,746 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,884; most fall between $704 and $7,421.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 274 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
$520$1,233$3,746$6,816$9,738

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($520 vs $9,738).

Of the 291 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 274 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

371 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 411 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted371
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here32
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code411

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Laryngoscopy Flexible Ablatj Destj Lesion(S) Uni.

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, “Flexible voice box scope with destruction of a lesion (CPT 31572) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31572-flexible-voice-box-scope-with-destruction-of-a-lesion