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

Bronchoscopy to remove an airway valve, each extra lobe

CPT 31649the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for taking out an airway valve in each additional lung lobe beyond the first during the same scope procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $2,041 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 509 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,112. Most fall between $865 and $3,205 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
509
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 509 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
$180$1,110$2,041$2,863$5,050

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($180 vs $5,050).

How the prices are spread

$147 – $210: 30 hospitals$147$210 – $300: 9 hospitals$300 – $429: 20 hospitals$300$429 – $614: 8 hospitals$614 – $877: 10 hospitals$614$877 – $1,254: 32 hospitals$1,254 – $1,793: 59 hospitals$1,254$1,793 – $2,563: 126 hospitals$2,563 – $3,663: 111 hospitals$2,563$3,663 – $5,236: 55 hospitals$3,663median $2,041price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (460 of 509 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$147$21030
$210$3009
$300$42920
$429$6148
$614$87710
$877$1,25432
$1,254$1,79359
$1,793$2,563126
$2,563$3,663111
$3,663$5,23655

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,818
Median cash price$2,041
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $2,041.

Alaska: 2 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $614 across 18 hospitalsIL$614Wisconsin: median $330 across 23 hospitalsWI$330Michigan: median $1,764 across 10 hospitalsMI$1,764New York: median $2,041 across 20 hospitalsNY$2,041Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $149 across 11 hospitalsOR$149Nevada: 2 hospitals 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 $174 across 18 hospitalsIA$174Indiana: median $1,943 across 13 hospitalsIN$1,943Ohio: median $2,470 across 38 hospitalsOH$2,470Pennsylvania: median $2,678 across 25 hospitalsPA$2,678New Jersey: median $4,627 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,766 across 54 hospitalsCA$2,766Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,711 across 15 hospitalsCO$1,711Nebraska: median $1,107 across 10 hospitalsNE$1,107Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $2,816 across 14 hospitalsSC$2,816Oklahoma: median $110 across 15 hospitalsOK$110Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,950 across 32 hospitalsGA$1,950Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,863 across 21 hospitalsTX$2,863Florida: median $2,774 across 28 hospitalsFL$2,774
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,041. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ33$4,627+127%$1,910 – $5,741
Texas TX21$2,863+40%$1,050 – $2,863
South Carolina SC14$2,816+38%$2,171 – $2,816
Florida FL28$2,774+36%$1,110 – $3,464
California CA54$2,766+36%$1,590 – $5,236
Pennsylvania PA25$2,678+31%$1,819 – $3,249
Ohio OH38$2,470+21%$1,968 – $3,188
New York NY20$2,0410%$2,041 – $2,222
Georgia GA32$1,950−4%$1,950 – $3,205
Indiana IN13$1,943−5%$1,700 – $2,747
Michigan MI10$1,764−14%$330 – $2,447
Colorado CO15$1,711−16%$1,476 – $1,985
Nebraska NE10$1,107−46%$161 – $1,436
Illinois IL18$614−70%$174 – $2,906
Wisconsin WI23$330−84%$330 – $2,052
Iowa IA18$174−91%$174 – $838
Oregon OR11$149−93%$124 – $149
Oklahoma OK15$110−95%$110 – $1,722
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,041.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care445$2,041$940 – $3,205
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access54$2,052$330 – $2,863
Ownership
For-profit37$1,932$656 – $2,278
Government57$1,952$935 – $2,863
Non-profit412$2,063$853 – $3,398
System affiliation
Part of a system454$2,052$962 – $3,249
Independent55$1,210$185 – $2,184

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,697
Median cash price$2,041
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

357 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,985 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,073; most fall between $721 and $3,160.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 357 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
$174$1,019$1,985$2,863$4,886

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($174 vs $4,886).

Of the 419 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 357 gave a usable cash price; 49 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

509 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 591 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted509
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code591

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 Brnchsc Removal Bronchial Valve Ea Addl.

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, “Bronchoscopy to remove an airway valve, each extra lobe (CPT 31649) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31649-bronchoscopy-to-remove-an-airway-valve-each-extra-lobe