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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Removal of narrowed windpipe segment below voice box

CPT 31592the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to cut out the cricoid and upper windpipe where it is narrowed and rejoin the healthy ends.

Hospitals typically charge $5,855 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 168 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,804. Most fall between $2,900 and $8,540 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
168
States
26
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 168 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
$2,341$3,786$5,855$7,402$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,341 vs $11,934).

How the prices are spread

$1,753 – $2,124: 8 hospitals$1,753$2,124 – $2,573: 11 hospitals$2,573 – $3,117: 9 hospitals$2,573$3,117 – $3,776: 5 hospitals$3,776 – $4,574: 17 hospitals$3,776$4,574 – $5,541: 24 hospitals$5,541 – $6,713: 19 hospitals$5,541$6,713 – $8,132: 28 hospitals$8,132 – $9,851: 12 hospitals$8,132$9,851 – $11,934: 22 hospitals$9,851median $5,855price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (155 of 168 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,753$2,1248
$2,124$2,57311
$2,573$3,1179
$3,117$3,7765
$3,776$4,57417
$4,574$5,54124
$5,541$6,71319
$6,713$8,13228
$8,132$9,85112
$9,851$11,93422

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$5,855
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

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 $5,855.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $7,000 across 20 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $4,248 across 13 hospitalsIA$4,248Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8,540 across 11 hospitalsPA$8,540New Jersey: median $6,311 across 22 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,934 across 22 hospitalsCA$11,934Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,341 across 12 hospitalsOK$2,341Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $5,413 across 17 hospitalsTX$5,413Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,855. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA22$11,934+104%$11,934 – $11,934
Pennsylvania PA11$8,540+46%$3,908 – $11,147
New York NY20$7,000+20%$5,005 – $7,027
New Jersey NJ22$6,311+8%$4,881 – $6,553
Texas TX17$5,413−8%$5,413 – $5,413
Iowa IA13$4,248−27%$4,248 – $4,248
Oklahoma OK12$2,341−60%$2,341 – $2,341
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $5,855.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care158$6,048$2,900 – $8,654
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access5fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit13fewer than 20 hospitals
Government20$7,000$3,485 – $7,000
Non-profit134$5,419$2,896 – $9,186
System affiliation
Part of a system142$6,311$3,559 – $9,186
Independent26$4,013$2,454 – $7,053

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,109
Median cash price$5,855
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

103 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,248 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,450; most fall between $2,341 and $11,934.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 103 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
$1,576$2,341$4,248$7,141$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,576 vs $11,934).

Of the 111 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 103 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 0 a list price only.

How complete is this

168 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 187 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted168
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded0
Hospitals that filed this code187

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 respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Cricotracheal Resection.

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, “Removal of narrowed windpipe segment below voice box (CPT 31592) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31592-removal-of-narrowed-windpipe-segment-below-voice-box