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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Complicated removal of an object lodged in the mouth lining

CPT 40805the billing code this page is about

Removal of a foreign object embedded in the tissue lining the inside of the lips or cheeks when the removal is deep or otherwise complicated.

Hospitals typically charge $912 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 679 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,038. Most fall between $510 and $1,935 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
679
States
47
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 679 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
$347$557$912$1,756$3,842

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($347 vs $3,842).

How the prices are spread

$297 – $387: 61 hospitals$297$387 – $505: 42 hospitals$505 – $658: 105 hospitals$505$658 – $858: 74 hospitals$858 – $1,119: 83 hospitals$858$1,119 – $1,459: 76 hospitals$1,459 – $1,903: 55 hospitals$1,459$1,903 – $2,481: 53 hospitals$2,481 – $3,235: 18 hospitals$2,481$3,235 – $4,218: 48 hospitals$3,235median $912price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (615 of 679 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$297$38761
$387$50542
$505$658105
$658$85874
$858$1,11983
$1,119$1,45976
$1,459$1,90355
$1,903$2,48153
$2,481$3,23518
$3,235$4,21848

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$551
Median cash price$912
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.66×

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 $912.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,055 across 17 hospitalsWA$1,055Idaho: 9 hospitals 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 $554 across 20 hospitalsIL$554Wisconsin: median $912 across 17 hospitalsWI$912Michigan: median $581 across 20 hospitalsMI$581New York: median $673 across 34 hospitalsNY$673Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,196 across 21 hospitalsOR$1,196Nevada: 5 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 $737 across 21 hospitalsIA$737Indiana: median $567 across 11 hospitalsIN$567Ohio: median $1,307 across 23 hospitalsOH$1,307Pennsylvania: median $551 across 31 hospitalsPA$551New Jersey: median $1,264 across 27 hospitalsNJ$1,264Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,425 across 79 hospitalsCA$1,425Utah: median $441 across 23 hospitalsUT$441Colorado: median $1,059 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,059Nebraska: median $673 across 15 hospitalsNE$673Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,174 across 16 hospitalsVA$1,174Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $5,201 across 11 hospitalsAZ$5,201New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $307 across 10 hospitalsTN$307North Carolina: median $1,019 across 23 hospitalsNC$1,019South Carolina: median $1,437 across 15 hospitalsSC$1,437Oklahoma: median $326 across 18 hospitalsOK$326Louisiana: median $557 across 12 hospitalsLA$557Mississippi: median $580 across 15 hospitalsMS$580Alabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $4,218 across 23 hospitalsGA$4,218Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,756 across 56 hospitalsTX$1,756Florida: median $1,604 across 13 hospitalsFL$1,604
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $912. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$5,201+470%$1,004 – $5,201
Georgia GA23$4,218+363%$1,008 – $4,218
Texas TX56$1,756+93%$1,077 – $1,968
Florida FL13$1,604+76%$511 – $3,588
South Carolina SC15$1,437+58%$828 – $2,165
California CA79$1,425+56%$690 – $4,066
Ohio OH23$1,307+43%$646 – $1,523
New Jersey NJ27$1,264+39%$564 – $5,339
Oregon OR21$1,196+31%$526 – $3,842
Virginia VA16$1,174+29%$135 – $1,935
Colorado CO12$1,059+16%$494 – $1,225
Washington WA17$1,055+16%$683 – $2,102
North Carolina NC23$1,019+12%$628 – $1,069
Wisconsin WI17$9120%$912 – $912
Iowa IA21$737−19%$504 – $737
New York NY34$673−26%$603 – $1,557
Nebraska NE15$673−26%$545 – $2,079
Michigan MI20$581−36%$381 – $742
Mississippi MS15$580−36%$325 – $1,300
Indiana IN11$567−38%$368 – $1,124
Louisiana LA12$557−39%$426 – $983
Illinois IL20$554−39%$368 – $1,064
Pennsylvania PA31$551−40%$132 – $791
Utah UT23$441−52%$363 – $466
Oklahoma OK18$326−64%$326 – $2,647
Tennessee TN10$307−66%$272 – $395
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $912.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care551$1,002$522 – $2,063
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access110$805$464 – $1,311
Ownership
For-profit71$1,362$551 – $3,656
Government102$802$541 – $1,190
Non-profit505$912$482 – $1,942
System affiliation
Part of a system577$1,008$530 – $1,968
Independent102$698$409 – $1,264

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,598
Median cash price$912
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

523 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,019 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,094; most fall between $482 and $1,935.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 523 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
$338$549$1,019$1,756$3,780

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($338 vs $3,780).

Of the 557 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 523 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

679 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 724 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted679
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code724

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 Nonoperative removal of foreign body family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rmvl Embedded FB Vestibule Mouth Comp.

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, “Complicated removal of an object lodged in the mouth lining (CPT 40805) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-40805-complicated-removal-of-an-object-lodged-in-the-mouth-lining