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

Removal of a lesion on the back of the tongue

CPT 41113the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of a growth or abnormal tissue from the back third of the tongue, with the wound closed with stitches.

Hospitals typically charge $2,174 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 442 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,413. Most fall between $598 and $4,798 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
442
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 442 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
$398$660$2,174$4,262$8,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($398 vs $8,008).

How the prices are spread

$326 – $453: 43 hospitals$326$453 – $631: 36 hospitals$631 – $878: 42 hospitals$631$878 – $1,221: 36 hospitals$1,221 – $1,699: 22 hospitals$1,221$1,699 – $2,365: 21 hospitals$2,365 – $3,291: 23 hospitals$2,365$3,291 – $4,580: 100 hospitals$4,580 – $6,374: 35 hospitals$4,580$6,374 – $8,870: 40 hospitals$6,374median $2,174price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (398 of 442 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$326$45343
$453$63136
$631$87842
$878$1,22136
$1,221$1,69922
$1,699$2,36521
$2,365$3,29123
$3,291$4,580100
$4,580$6,37435
$6,374$8,87040

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$2,174
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.64×

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 $2,174.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $7,224 across 10 hospitalsID$7,224Montana: 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: median $1,229 across 17 hospitalsMN$1,229Illinois: median $469 across 15 hospitalsIL$469Wisconsin: median $2,796 across 19 hospitalsWI$2,796Michigan: median $624 across 15 hospitalsMI$624New York: median $3,710 across 37 hospitalsNY$3,710Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $899 across 17 hospitalsIA$899Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $988 across 17 hospitalsOH$988Pennsylvania: median $1,357 across 20 hospitalsPA$1,357New Jersey: median $4,327 across 28 hospitalsNJ$4,327Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,401 across 48 hospitalsCA$3,401Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $10,875 across 12 hospitalsSC$10,875Oklahoma: median $432 across 13 hospitalsOK$432Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,937 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,937Florida: median $3,977 across 10 hospitalsFL$3,977
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,174. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC12$10,875+400%$3,670 – $10,875
Idaho ID10$7,224+232%$1,030 – $8,795
New Jersey NJ28$4,327+99%$3,593 – $5,339
Florida FL10$3,977+83%$855 – $10,954
Texas TX24$3,937+81%$3,034 – $3,937
New York NY37$3,710+71%$646 – $3,935
California CA48$3,401+56%$2,159 – $8,008
Wisconsin WI19$2,796+29%$2,072 – $4,798
Pennsylvania PA20$1,357−38%$163 – $5,483
Minnesota MN17$1,229−44%$641 – $1,441
Ohio OH17$988−55%$739 – $5,357
Iowa IA17$899−59%$886 – $899
Michigan MI15$624−71%$398 – $4,559
Illinois IL15$469−78%$347 – $1,069
Oklahoma OK13$432−80%$432 – $4,890
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,174.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care365$3,056$624 – $4,890
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access66$1,100$502 – $3,937
Ownership
For-profit43$1,840$452 – $4,783
Government68$1,087$558 – $3,892
Non-profit330$2,733$624 – $5,036
System affiliation
Part of a system357$3,056$624 – $4,881
Independent85$1,069$520 – $3,917

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,638
Median cash price$2,174
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

264 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,357 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,073; most fall between $473 and $5,855.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 264 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
$385$606$1,357$3,937$8,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($385 vs $8,008).

Of the 293 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 264 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

442 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 492 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted442
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code492

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 Exc Lesion Tongue W/Clsr Posterior One-Third.

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, “Removal of a lesion on the back of the tongue (CPT 41113) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41113-removal-of-a-lesion-on-the-back-of-the-tongue