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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx

Simple drainage of abscess or blood pocket in the mouth

CPT 40800the billing code this page is about

Cutting open and draining a simple abscess, cyst, or collection of blood in the soft tissue lining the inside of the lips and cheeks.

Hospitals typically charge $582 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,909 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $618. Most fall between $255 and $1,146 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,909
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,909 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
$179$299$582$1,016$1,981

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($179 vs $1,981).

How the prices are spread

$125 – $169: 74 hospitals$125$169 – $228: 148 hospitals$228 – $309: 186 hospitals$228$309 – $419: 193 hospitals$419 – $567: 232 hospitals$419$567 – $769: 238 hospitals$769 – $1,041: 290 hospitals$769$1,041 – $1,410: 155 hospitals$1,410 – $1,909: 97 hospitals$1,410$1,909 – $2,586: 106 hospitals$1,909median $582price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,719 of 1,909 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$125$16974
$169$228148
$228$309186
$309$419193
$419$567232
$567$769238
$769$1,041290
$1,041$1,410155
$1,410$1,90997
$1,909$2,586106

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$582
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.80×

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 $582.

Alaska: median $493 across 12 hospitalsAK$493Maine: median $348 across 17 hospitalsME$348Vermont: median $299 across 10 hospitalsVT$299New Hampshire: median $241 across 16 hospitalsNH$241Washington: median $548 across 56 hospitalsWA$548Idaho: median $714 across 16 hospitalsID$714Montana: median $313 across 14 hospitalsMT$313North Dakota: median $587 across 13 hospitalsND$587Minnesota: median $542 across 59 hospitalsMN$542Illinois: median $634 across 82 hospitalsIL$634Wisconsin: median $859 across 63 hospitalsWI$859Michigan: median $702 across 63 hospitalsMI$702New York: median $833 across 86 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $654 across 43 hospitalsMA$654Oregon: median $574 across 45 hospitalsOR$574Nevada: median $730 across 12 hospitalsNV$730Wyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $842 across 12 hospitalsSD$842Iowa: median $352 across 47 hospitalsIA$352Indiana: median $402 across 46 hospitalsIN$402Ohio: median $704 across 81 hospitalsOH$704Pennsylvania: median $798 across 91 hospitalsPA$798New Jersey: median $2,370 across 38 hospitalsNJ$2,370Connecticut: median $640 across 16 hospitalsCT$640Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,086 across 116 hospitalsCA$1,086Utah: median $441 across 25 hospitalsUT$441Colorado: median $530 across 34 hospitalsCO$530Nebraska: median $417 across 39 hospitalsNE$417Missouri: median $326 across 37 hospitalsMO$326Kentucky: median $308 across 33 hospitalsKY$308West Virginia: median $814 across 30 hospitalsWV$814Virginia: median $498 across 49 hospitalsVA$498Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $277 across 15 hospitalsAZ$277New Mexico: median $544 across 18 hospitalsNM$544Kansas: median $353 across 27 hospitalsKS$353Arkansas: median $323 across 14 hospitalsAR$323Tennessee: median $195 across 30 hospitalsTN$195North Carolina: median $370 across 43 hospitalsNC$370South Carolina: median $478 across 43 hospitalsSC$478Oklahoma: median $228 across 44 hospitalsOK$228Louisiana: median $305 across 36 hospitalsLA$305Mississippi: median $246 across 32 hospitalsMS$246Alabama: median $433 across 17 hospitalsAL$433Georgia: median $450 across 61 hospitalsGA$450Hawaii: median $1,149 across 13 hospitalsHI$1,149Texas: median $719 across 122 hospitalsTX$719Florida: median $1,193 across 73 hospitalsFL$1,193
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $582. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ38$2,370+307%$779 – $4,881
Florida FL73$1,193+105%$656 – $2,862
Hawaii HI13$1,149+98%$886 – $2,335
California CA116$1,086+87%$669 – $1,994
Wisconsin WI63$859+48%$429 – $911
South Dakota SD12$842+45%$324 – $1,624
New York NY86$833+43%$240 – $1,627
West Virginia WV30$814+40%$125 – $1,161
Pennsylvania PA91$798+37%$244 – $1,387
Nevada NV12$730+25%$249 – $972
Texas TX122$719+24%$358 – $1,053
Idaho ID16$714+23%$281 – $1,783
Ohio OH81$704+21%$414 – $1,544
Michigan MI63$702+21%$160 – $974
Massachusetts MA43$654+12%$374 – $1,121
Connecticut CT16$640+10%$444 – $1,424
Illinois IL82$634+9%$285 – $1,240
North Dakota ND13$587+1%$208 – $913
Oregon OR45$574−1%$350 – $710
Washington WA56$548−6%$258 – $1,046
New Mexico NM18$544−7%$199 – $720
Minnesota MN59$542−7%$244 – $794
Colorado CO34$530−9%$347 – $1,632
Virginia VA49$498−14%$116 – $917
Alaska AK12$493−15%$261 – $1,157
South Carolina SC43$478−18%$308 – $1,399
Georgia GA61$450−23%$303 – $1,981
Utah UT25$441−24%$363 – $466
Alabama AL17$433−26%$234 – $1,006
Nebraska NE39$417−28%$184 – $720
Indiana IN46$402−31%$222 – $915
North Carolina NC43$370−36%$239 – $802
Kansas KS27$353−39%$226 – $686
Iowa IA47$352−40%$244 – $567
Maine ME17$348−40%$174 – $644
Missouri MO37$326−44%$247 – $889
Arkansas AR14$323−45%$171 – $386
Montana MT14$313−46%$226 – $551
Kentucky KY33$308−47%$199 – $1,021
Louisiana LA36$305−48%$147 – $729
Vermont VT10$299−49%$169 – $857
Arizona AZ15$277−52%$215 – $680
Mississippi MS32$246−58%$137 – $435
New Hampshire NH16$241−59%$191 – $597
Oklahoma OK44$228−61%$173 – $870
Tennessee TN30$195−66%$66 – $440
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $582.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,397$679$285 – $1,295
Children’s41$1,006$439 – $3,061
Critical access467$395$204 – $859
Ownership
For-profit169$720$277 – $1,318
Government335$425$214 – $869
Non-profit1,401$609$263 – $1,221
System affiliation
Part of a system1,567$626$271 – $1,240
Independent342$436$216 – $896

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$952
Median cash price$582
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

1,425 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $610 and the average of the middle 60% is $655; most fall between $274 and $1,247.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,425 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
$188$331$610$1,053$1,981

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($188 vs $1,981).

Of the 1,527 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,425 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 62 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,909 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (48%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,055 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,909
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded71
Hospitals that filed this code2,055

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 nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Drain Mouth Absc/Cyst/Hematoma,Simpl.

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, “Simple drainage of abscess or blood pocket in the mouth (CPT 40800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-40800-simple-drainage-of-abscess-or-blood-pocket-in-the-mouth