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

Draining an abscess under the jaw, inside the mouth

CPT 41008the billing code this page is about

Cutting through the inside of the mouth to drain an abscess, cyst, or blood collection in the submandibular space below the jaw.

Hospitals typically charge $3,105 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,051 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,121. Most fall between $844 and $5,929 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,051
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 1,051 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
$454$1,192$3,105$5,093$7,570

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($454 vs $7,570).

How the prices are spread

$354 – $493: 72 hospitals$354$493 – $686: 54 hospitals$686 – $955: 51 hospitals$686$955 – $1,330: 50 hospitals$1,330 – $1,852: 63 hospitals$1,330$1,852 – $2,579: 98 hospitals$2,579 – $3,591: 190 hospitals$2,579$3,591 – $5,001: 152 hospitals$5,001 – $6,964: 134 hospitals$5,001$6,964 – $9,697: 88 hospitals$6,964median $3,105price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (952 of 1,051 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$354$49372
$493$68654
$686$95551
$955$1,33050
$1,330$1,85263
$1,852$2,57998
$2,579$3,591190
$3,591$5,001152
$5,001$6,964134
$6,964$9,69788

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$3,105
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $3,105.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,366 across 32 hospitalsWA$3,366Idaho: median $6,899 across 10 hospitalsID$6,899Montana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,246 across 31 hospitalsMN$3,246Illinois: median $1,862 across 38 hospitalsIL$1,862Wisconsin: median $2,478 across 39 hospitalsWI$2,478Michigan: median $1,650 across 46 hospitalsMI$1,650New York: median $4,139 across 60 hospitalsNY$4,139Massachusetts: median $3,152 across 20 hospitalsMA$3,152Oregon: median $1,110 across 29 hospitalsOR$1,110Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $951 across 22 hospitalsIA$951Indiana: median $5,524 across 20 hospitalsIN$5,524Ohio: median $3,731 across 46 hospitalsOH$3,731Pennsylvania: median $3,436 across 34 hospitalsPA$3,436New Jersey: median $4,290 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,290Connecticut: median $3,933 across 10 hospitalsCT$3,933Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,180 across 88 hospitalsCA$4,180Utah: median $410 across 22 hospitalsUT$410Colorado: median $3,830 across 15 hospitalsCO$3,830Nebraska: median $1,981 across 13 hospitalsNE$1,981Missouri: median $952 across 31 hospitalsMO$952Kentucky: median $3,352 across 17 hospitalsKY$3,352West Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,741 across 21 hospitalsVA$2,741Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $454 across 12 hospitalsAZ$454New Mexico: median $435 across 10 hospitalsNM$435Kansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $354 across 10 hospitalsTN$354North Carolina: median $2,844 across 28 hospitalsNC$2,844South Carolina: median $2,823 across 28 hospitalsSC$2,823Oklahoma: median $424 across 20 hospitalsOK$424Louisiana: median $1,735 across 23 hospitalsLA$1,735Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,889 across 49 hospitalsGA$2,889Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,891 across 79 hospitalsTX$2,891Florida: median $6,011 across 30 hospitalsFL$6,011
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,105. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$6,899+122%$2,000 – $8,795
Florida FL30$6,011+94%$4,313 – $10,326
Indiana IN20$5,524+78%$357 – $7,328
New Jersey NJ28$4,290+38%$3,590 – $6,311
California CA88$4,180+35%$2,111 – $6,709
New York NY60$4,139+33%$2,717 – $7,391
Connecticut CT10$3,933+27%$1,526 – $4,682
Colorado CO15$3,830+23%$775 – $8,292
Ohio OH46$3,731+20%$2,004 – $9,697
Pennsylvania PA34$3,436+11%$200 – $5,036
Washington WA32$3,366+8%$1,357 – $6,677
Kentucky KY17$3,352+8%$2,514 – $13,022
Minnesota MN31$3,246+5%$934 – $3,291
Massachusetts MA20$3,152+2%$1,945 – $4,368
Texas TX79$2,891−7%$2,125 – $3,540
Georgia GA49$2,889−7%$1,791 – $7,570
North Carolina NC28$2,844−8%$1,710 – $5,881
South Carolina SC28$2,823−9%$2,248 – $4,986
Virginia VA21$2,741−12%$2,351 – $4,234
Wisconsin WI39$2,478−20%$1,650 – $4,798
Nebraska NE13$1,981−36%$627 – $3,358
Illinois IL38$1,862−40%$617 – $6,064
Louisiana LA23$1,735−44%$1,249 – $2,677
Michigan MI46$1,650−47%$340 – $4,559
Oregon OR29$1,110−64%$732 – $7,562
Missouri MO31$952−69%$579 – $3,838
Iowa IA22$951−69%$726 – $5,770
Arizona AZ12$454−85%$454 – $1,346
New Mexico NM10$435−86%$405 – $3,610
Oklahoma OK20$424−86%$424 – $3,076
Utah UT22$410−87%$362 – $4,742
Tennessee TN10$354−89%$309 – $1,072
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $3,105.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care861$3,261$1,052 – $6,117
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access173$1,862$519 – $4,940
Ownership
For-profit97$2,295$686 – $5,165
Government147$2,823$688 – $5,571
Non-profit807$3,261$951 – $6,218
System affiliation
Part of a system912$3,246$982 – $6,172
Independent139$2,000$613 – $5,121

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,435
Median cash price$3,105
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

828 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,151 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,284; most fall between $1,014 and $6,334.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 828 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
$454$1,526$3,151$5,571$8,284

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($454 vs $8,284).

Of the 872 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 828 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 18 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,051 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,123 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,051
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
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 — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code1,123

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 Intraoral I&D Tongue/Floor Submndblr Space.

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 an abscess under the jaw, inside the mouth (CPT 41008) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41008-draining-an-abscess-under-the-jaw-inside-the-mouth