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

Stitching a mouth cut up to 2.5 cm

CPT 40830the billing code this page is about

Closure with stitches of a tear in the lining inside the lip or cheek measuring 2.5 centimeters or less.

Hospitals typically charge $411 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,532 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $428. Most fall between $257 and $683 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,532
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 1,532 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
$191$275$411$607$1,020

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($191 vs $1,020).

How the prices are spread

$137 – $176: 54 hospitals$137$176 – $225: 99 hospitals$225 – $287: 208 hospitals$225$287 – $368: 217 hospitals$368 – $471: 226 hospitals$368$471 – $602: 260 hospitals$602 – $770: 146 hospitals$602$770 – $985: 83 hospitals$985 – $1,261: 46 hospitals$985$1,261 – $1,613: 41 hospitals$1,261median $411price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,380 of 1,532 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$137$17654
$176$22599
$225$287208
$287$368217
$368$471226
$471$602260
$602$770146
$770$98583
$985$1,26146
$1,261$1,61341

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$242
Median cash price$411
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.70×

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 $411.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $339 across 13 hospitalsME$339Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $331 across 13 hospitalsNH$331Washington: median $475 across 44 hospitalsWA$475Idaho: median $649 across 12 hospitalsID$649Montana: median $354 across 14 hospitalsMT$354North Dakota: median $422 across 12 hospitalsND$422Minnesota: median $444 across 55 hospitalsMN$444Illinois: median $362 across 73 hospitalsIL$362Wisconsin: median $572 across 56 hospitalsWI$572Michigan: median $316 across 47 hospitalsMI$316New York: median $477 across 69 hospitalsNY$477Massachusetts: median $584 across 35 hospitalsMA$584Oregon: median $560 across 38 hospitalsOR$560Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $606 across 11 hospitalsSD$606Iowa: median $406 across 37 hospitalsIA$406Indiana: median $361 across 34 hospitalsIN$361Ohio: median $467 across 50 hospitalsOH$467Pennsylvania: median $392 across 84 hospitalsPA$392New Jersey: median $849 across 33 hospitalsNJ$849Connecticut: median $491 across 15 hospitalsCT$491Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $728 across 101 hospitalsCA$728Utah: median $369 across 25 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $451 across 36 hospitalsCO$451Nebraska: median $390 across 34 hospitalsNE$390Missouri: median $410 across 30 hospitalsMO$410Kentucky: median $233 across 18 hospitalsKY$233West Virginia: median $276 across 16 hospitalsWV$276Virginia: median $328 across 41 hospitalsVA$328Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,366 across 12 hospitalsAZ$1,366New Mexico: median $305 across 13 hospitalsNM$305Kansas: median $405 across 19 hospitalsKS$405Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $233 across 15 hospitalsTN$233North Carolina: median $406 across 27 hospitalsNC$406South Carolina: median $372 across 33 hospitalsSC$372Oklahoma: median $282 across 37 hospitalsOK$282Louisiana: median $300 across 29 hospitalsLA$300Mississippi: median $159 across 28 hospitalsMS$159Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $307 across 38 hospitalsGA$307Hawaii: median $766 across 11 hospitalsHI$766Texas: median $473 across 121 hospitalsTX$473Florida: median $460 across 50 hospitalsFL$460
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $411. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ12$1,366+233%$453 – $1,366
New Jersey NJ33$849+107%$257 – $5,110
Hawaii HI11$766+86%$554 – $1,023
California CA101$728+77%$303 – $1,646
Idaho ID12$649+58%$335 – $679
South Dakota SD11$606+48%$452 – $606
Massachusetts MA35$584+42%$320 – $1,293
Wisconsin WI56$572+39%$412 – $589
Oregon OR38$560+36%$411 – $701
Connecticut CT15$491+19%$263 – $624
New York NY69$477+16%$275 – $785
Washington WA44$475+16%$274 – $833
Texas TX121$473+15%$231 – $553
Ohio OH50$467+14%$263 – $694
Florida FL50$460+12%$329 – $1,030
Colorado CO36$451+10%$329 – $729
Minnesota MN55$444+8%$327 – $564
North Dakota ND12$422+3%$301 – $781
Missouri MO30$4100%$277 – $502
Iowa IA37$406−1%$246 – $558
North Carolina NC27$406−1%$259 – $468
Kansas KS19$405−1%$259 – $1,498
Pennsylvania PA84$392−4%$242 – $778
Nebraska NE34$390−5%$278 – $486
South Carolina SC33$372−9%$351 – $878
Utah UT25$369−10%$340 – $410
Illinois IL73$362−12%$221 – $509
Indiana IN34$361−12%$257 – $518
Montana MT14$354−14%$301 – $648
Maine ME13$339−18%$208 – $454
New Hampshire NH13$331−19%$129 – $383
Virginia VA41$328−20%$174 – $452
Michigan MI47$316−23%$198 – $575
Georgia GA38$307−25%$259 – $440
New Mexico NM13$305−26%$232 – $840
Louisiana LA29$300−27%$161 – $557
Oklahoma OK37$282−31%$220 – $470
West Virginia WV16$276−33%$231 – $440
Tennessee TN15$233−43%$123 – $296
Kentucky KY18$233−43%$186 – $456
Mississippi MS28$159−61%$126 – $267
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not 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 $411.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,163$404$257 – $710
Children’s34$467$270 – $1,291
Critical access332$444$259 – $594
Ownership
For-profit130$395$263 – $850
Government228$394$223 – $583
Non-profit1,171$418$259 – $691
System affiliation
Part of a system1,262$430$259 – $691
Independent270$374$234 – $655

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$691
Median cash price$411
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

1,183 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $446 and the average of the middle 60% is $446; most fall between $260 and $720.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,183 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
$193$285$446$636$1,088

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($193 vs $1,088).

Of the 1,251 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,183 gave a usable cash price; 28 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 40 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,532 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (39%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,632 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,532
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
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 — excluded48
Hospitals that filed this code1,632

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 nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Closure Laceration Vestibule Mouth 2.5 Cm/<.

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, “Stitching a mouth cut up to 2.5 cm (CPT 40830) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-40830-stitching-a-mouth-cut-up-to-2-5-cm