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

Unlisted procedure on the windpipe or airways

CPT 31899the billing code this page is about

Used when a procedure on the trachea or bronchi has no specific billing code of its own; the surgeon's report describes what was done.

Hospitals typically charge $596 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 754 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $676. Most fall between $251 and $1,660 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
754
States
48
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 754 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
$176$277$596$1,192$2,844

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $2,844).

How the prices are spread

$137 – $194: 57 hospitals$137$194 – $277: 94 hospitals$277 – $393: 88 hospitals$277$393 – $559: 86 hospitals$559 – $795: 99 hospitals$559$795 – $1,131: 92 hospitals$1,131 – $1,609: 47 hospitals$1,131$1,609 – $2,288: 49 hospitals$2,288 – $3,254: 44 hospitals$2,288$3,254 – $4,627: 24 hospitals$3,254median $596price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (680 of 754 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$137$19457
$194$27794
$277$39388
$393$55986
$559$79599
$795$1,13192
$1,131$1,60947
$1,609$2,28849
$2,288$3,25444
$3,254$4,62724

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$204
Median cash price$596
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.9×

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 $596.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,059 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,059Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $778 across 13 hospitalsMN$778Illinois: median $801 across 36 hospitalsIL$801Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $276 across 27 hospitalsMI$276New York: median $237 across 38 hospitalsNY$237Massachusetts: median $700 across 10 hospitalsMA$700Oregon: median $664 across 18 hospitalsOR$664Nevada: 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $472 across 25 hospitalsIN$472Ohio: median $596 across 19 hospitalsOH$596Pennsylvania: median $486 across 47 hospitalsPA$486New Jersey: median $733 across 35 hospitalsNJ$733Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $924 across 65 hospitalsCA$924Utah: median $646 across 22 hospitalsUT$646Colorado: median $319 across 12 hospitalsCO$319Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $440 across 14 hospitalsMO$440Kentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $199 across 11 hospitalsWV$199Virginia: median $389 across 25 hospitalsVA$389Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $764 across 16 hospitalsAZ$764New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $183 across 23 hospitalsNC$183South Carolina: median $1,660 across 22 hospitalsSC$1,660Oklahoma: median $576 across 17 hospitalsOK$576Louisiana: median $639 across 17 hospitalsLA$639Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $443 across 45 hospitalsGA$443Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $433 across 58 hospitalsTX$433Florida: median $1,147 across 29 hospitalsFL$1,147
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $596. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC22$1,660+179%$1,660 – $2,158
Florida FL29$1,147+92%$437 – $2,550
Washington WA11$1,059+78%$240 – $1,686
California CA65$924+55%$302 – $1,128
Illinois IL36$801+34%$357 – $1,712
Minnesota MN13$778+31%$338 – $825
Arizona AZ16$764+28%$362 – $2,893
New Jersey NJ35$733+23%$215 – $5,110
Massachusetts MA10$700+17%$49 – $2,343
Oregon OR18$664+11%$359 – $1,192
Utah UT22$646+8%$646 – $807
Louisiana LA17$639+7%$130 – $2,156
Ohio OH19$5960%$140 – $2,437
Oklahoma OK17$576−3%$277 – $864
Pennsylvania PA47$486−18%$288 – $2,472
Indiana IN25$472−21%$126 – $658
Georgia GA45$443−26%$239 – $667
Missouri MO14$440−26%$185 – $4,921
Texas TX58$433−27%$303 – $856
Virginia VA25$389−35%$262 – $1,070
Colorado CO12$319−47%$191 – $802
Michigan MI27$276−54%$274 – $571
New York NY38$237−60%$204 – $537
West Virginia WV11$199−67%$165 – $1,262
North Carolina NC23$183−69%$176 – $779
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $596.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care670$593$250 – $1,660
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access71$471$270 – $982
Ownership
For-profit73$583$288 – $2,893
Government116$411$194 – $1,570
Non-profit563$611$268 – $1,515
System affiliation
Part of a system656$599$262 – $1,660
Independent98$499$217 – $1,500

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,135
Median cash price$596
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

567 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $592 and the average of the middle 60% is $640; most fall between $262 and $1,421.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 567 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
$176$303$592$1,139$2,437

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($176 vs $2,437).

Of the 615 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 567 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

754 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 805 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted754
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code805

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Bronchial Rheoplasty C/T 31660.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the windpipe or airways (CPT 31899) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-31899-unlisted-procedure-on-the-windpipe-or-airways