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

Drainage of deep chewing-muscle abscess through the mouth

CPT 41009the billing code this page is about

Incision made inside the mouth to drain an abscess or fluid collection in the deep space around the chewing muscles of the jaw.

Hospitals typically charge $776 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 625 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $860. Most fall between $454 and $1,536 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
625
States
46
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 625 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
$364$545$776$1,331$2,212

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($364 vs $2,212).

How the prices are spread

$308 – $391: 62 hospitals$308$391 – $497: 54 hospitals$497 – $631: 93 hospitals$497$631 – $801: 86 hospitals$801 – $1,017: 58 hospitals$801$1,017 – $1,291: 62 hospitals$1,291 – $1,639: 72 hospitals$1,291$1,639 – $2,081: 39 hospitals$2,081 – $2,643: 16 hospitals$2,081$2,643 – $3,355: 23 hospitals$2,643median $776price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (565 of 625 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$308$39162
$391$49754
$497$63193
$631$80186
$801$1,01758
$1,017$1,29162
$1,291$1,63972
$1,639$2,08139
$2,081$2,64316
$2,643$3,35523

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$551
Median cash price$776
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.41×

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 $776.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $458 across 13 hospitalsWA$458Idaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,300 across 16 hospitalsMN$1,300Illinois: median $494 across 18 hospitalsIL$494Wisconsin: median $1,241 across 10 hospitalsWI$1,241Michigan: median $581 across 39 hospitalsMI$581New York: median $673 across 45 hospitalsNY$673Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,022 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,022Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $802 across 13 hospitalsOH$802Pennsylvania: median $622 across 30 hospitalsPA$622New Jersey: median $1,927 across 26 hospitalsNJ$1,927Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,971 across 34 hospitalsCA$1,971Utah: median $369 across 20 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $1,000 across 19 hospitalsCO$1,000Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $684 across 12 hospitalsMO$684Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $769 across 29 hospitalsVA$769Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,608 across 11 hospitalsAZ$1,608New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,306 across 19 hospitalsNC$1,306South Carolina: median $2,659 across 22 hospitalsSC$2,659Oklahoma: median $468 across 20 hospitalsOK$468Louisiana: median $367 across 14 hospitalsLA$367Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,416 across 22 hospitalsGA$1,416Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $584 across 45 hospitalsTX$584Florida: median $1,180 across 23 hospitalsFL$1,180
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $776. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC22$2,659+243%$828 – $5,806
California CA34$1,971+154%$650 – $1,971
New Jersey NJ26$1,927+148%$564 – $5,339
Arizona AZ11$1,608+107%$1,176 – $1,608
Georgia GA22$1,416+83%$850 – $1,690
North Carolina NC19$1,306+68%$676 – $1,306
Minnesota MN16$1,300+67%$719 – $1,300
Wisconsin WI10$1,241+60%$517 – $1,241
Florida FL23$1,180+52%$1,061 – $2,030
Iowa IA16$1,022+32%$1,022 – $1,022
Colorado CO19$1,000+29%$810 – $1,367
Ohio OH13$802+3%$567 – $1,065
Virginia VA29$769−1%$382 – $962
Missouri MO12$684−12%$414 – $684
New York NY45$673−13%$520 – $1,519
Pennsylvania PA30$622−20%$186 – $861
Texas TX45$584−25%$574 – $805
Michigan MI39$581−25%$449 – $742
Illinois IL18$494−36%$390 – $1,022
Oklahoma OK20$468−40%$372 – $611
Washington WA13$458−41%$317 – $1,130
Utah UT20$369−53%$328 – $410
Louisiana LA14$367−53%$255 – $799
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not 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 $776.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care545$776$468 – $1,608
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access75$764$390 – $1,300
Ownership
For-profit57$704$468 – $1,547
Government92$802$502 – $1,306
Non-profit475$776$449 – $1,650
System affiliation
Part of a system553$788$468 – $1,608
Independent72$662$438 – $1,263

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,337
Median cash price$776
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

468 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $802 and the average of the middle 60% is $902; most fall between $468 and $1,608.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 468 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
$369$553$802$1,416$2,212

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($369 vs $2,212).

Of the 491 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 468 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

625 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 668 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted625
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code668

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 Masticator 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, “Drainage of deep chewing-muscle abscess through the mouth (CPT 41009) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41009-drainage-of-deep-chewing-muscle-abscess-through-the-mouth