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

Draining a deep abscess under the tongue, inside the mouth

CPT 41006the billing code this page is about

Cutting through the inside of the mouth to drain a deep abscess, cyst, or blood collection under the tongue above the muscle that forms the floor of the mouth.

Hospitals typically charge $1,737 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 291 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,836. Most fall between $495 and $4,050 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
291
States
41
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 291 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
$381$625$1,737$3,711$4,477

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($381 vs $4,477).

How the prices are spread

$266 – $363: 12 hospitals$266$363 – $494: 30 hospitals$494 – $673: 27 hospitals$494$673 – $917: 25 hospitals$917 – $1,249: 11 hospitals$917$1,249 – $1,701: 23 hospitals$1,701 – $2,317: 47 hospitals$1,701$2,317 – $3,156: 12 hospitals$3,156 – $4,298: 56 hospitals$3,156$4,298 – $5,855: 20 hospitals$4,298median $1,737price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (263 of 291 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$266$36312
$363$49430
$494$67327
$673$91725
$917$1,24911
$1,249$1,70123
$1,701$2,31747
$2,317$3,15612
$3,156$4,29856
$4,298$5,85520

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$1,737
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.10×

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 $1,737.

Alaska: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $418 across 12 hospitalsIL$418Wisconsin: median $2,071 across 15 hospitalsWI$2,071Michigan: median $759 across 14 hospitalsMI$759New York: median $1,753 across 27 hospitalsNY$1,753Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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 $853 across 15 hospitalsIA$853Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,025 across 19 hospitalsPA$1,025New Jersey: median $4,350 across 27 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,054 across 25 hospitalsCA$4,054Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $9,485 across 10 hospitalsAZ$9,485New Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $381 across 12 hospitalsOK$381Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,711 across 19 hospitalsTX$3,711Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,737. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ10$9,485+446%$1,904 – $9,485
New Jersey NJ27$4,350+150%$1,641 – $5,741
California CA25$4,054+133%$937 – $4,054
Texas TX19$3,711+114%$3,711 – $3,711
Wisconsin WI15$2,071+19%$2,071 – $2,071
New York NY27$1,753+1%$1,585 – $1,980
Pennsylvania PA19$1,025−41%$145 – $2,504
Iowa IA15$853−51%$853 – $853
Michigan MI14$759−56%$495 – $2,133
Illinois IL12$418−76%$408 – $853
Oklahoma OK12$381−78%$381 – $381
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $1,737.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care253$1,753$495 – $4,054
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access35$998$442 – $2,071
Ownership
For-profit31$2,071$418 – $4,477
Government36$1,328$495 – $1,753
Non-profit224$1,753$547 – $4,054
System affiliation
Part of a system248$1,753$548 – $4,054
Independent43$799$408 – $2,554

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,725
Median cash price$1,737
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

187 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,071 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,034; most fall between $419 and $4,054.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 187 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
$381$601$2,071$3,741$4,054

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($381 vs $4,054).

Of the 199 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 187 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

291 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 320 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted291
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code320

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 OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Intraoral I&D Tongue/Floor Sublngl Dp Sprmlhyd.

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, “Draining a deep abscess under the tongue, inside the mouth (CPT 41006) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41006-draining-a-deep-abscess-under-the-tongue-inside-the-mouth