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

Stitching a cut up to 2.5 cm on the back of the tongue

CPT 41251the billing code this page is about

Suture repair of a wound no longer than 2.5 centimeters on the rear third of the tongue.

Hospitals typically charge $462 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,073 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $502. Most fall between $275 and $910 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,073
States
49
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 1,073 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
$211$293$462$766$1,479

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($211 vs $1,479).

How the prices are spread

$147 – $190: 34 hospitals$147$190 – $245: 59 hospitals$245 – $315: 166 hospitals$245$315 – $407: 168 hospitals$407 – $525: 124 hospitals$407$525 – $677: 128 hospitals$677 – $873: 112 hospitals$677$873 – $1,126: 74 hospitals$1,126 – $1,453: 46 hospitals$1,126$1,453 – $1,874: 61 hospitals$1,453median $462price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (972 of 1,073 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$147$19034
$190$24559
$245$315166
$315$407168
$407$525124
$525$677128
$677$873112
$873$1,12674
$1,126$1,45346
$1,453$1,87461

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$242
Median cash price$462
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.91×

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 $462.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $428 across 33 hospitalsWA$428Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 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 $415 across 14 hospitalsMN$415Illinois: median $449 across 32 hospitalsIL$449Wisconsin: median $1,147 across 30 hospitalsWI$1,147Michigan: median $366 across 23 hospitalsMI$366New York: median $396 across 44 hospitalsNY$396Massachusetts: median $621 across 19 hospitalsMA$621Oregon: median $579 across 26 hospitalsOR$579Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $503 across 21 hospitalsIA$503Indiana: median $385 across 26 hospitalsIN$385Ohio: median $462 across 53 hospitalsOH$462Pennsylvania: median $361 across 42 hospitalsPA$361New Jersey: median $1,517 across 30 hospitalsNJ$1,517Connecticut: median $485 across 11 hospitalsCT$485Rhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $910 across 95 hospitalsCA$910Utah: median $369 across 23 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $556 across 25 hospitalsCO$556Nebraska: median $384 across 14 hospitalsNE$384Missouri: median $397 across 19 hospitalsMO$397Kentucky: median $309 across 17 hospitalsKY$309West Virginia: median $340 across 20 hospitalsWV$340Virginia: median $750 across 29 hospitalsVA$750Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,874 across 13 hospitalsAZ$1,874New Mexico: median $339 across 11 hospitalsNM$339Kansas: median $373 across 13 hospitalsKS$373Arkansas: median $212 across 10 hospitalsAR$212Tennessee: median $240 across 21 hospitalsTN$240North Carolina: median $291 across 25 hospitalsNC$291South Carolina: median $545 across 32 hospitalsSC$545Oklahoma: median $300 across 25 hospitalsOK$300Louisiana: median $377 across 19 hospitalsLA$377Mississippi: median $141 across 26 hospitalsMS$141Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $408 across 28 hospitalsGA$408Hawaii: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $504 across 91 hospitalsTX$504Florida: median $735 across 37 hospitalsFL$735
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $462. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ13$1,874+305%$652 – $1,874
New Jersey NJ30$1,517+228%$257 – $5,110
Wisconsin WI30$1,147+148%$321 – $1,173
California CA95$910+97%$334 – $1,646
Virginia VA29$750+62%$174 – $2,319
Florida FL37$735+59%$312 – $1,598
Massachusetts MA19$621+34%$333 – $1,411
Oregon OR26$579+25%$505 – $998
Colorado CO25$556+20%$460 – $789
South Carolina SC32$545+18%$351 – $794
Texas TX91$504+9%$312 – $591
Iowa IA21$503+9%$359 – $751
Connecticut CT11$485+5%$338 – $729
Ohio OH53$4620%$263 – $694
Illinois IL32$449−3%$329 – $851
Washington WA33$428−7%$260 – $636
Minnesota MN14$415−10%$268 – $685
Georgia GA28$408−12%$288 – $1,662
Missouri MO19$397−14%$346 – $705
New York NY44$396−14%$275 – $729
Indiana IN26$385−17%$329 – $548
Nebraska NE14$384−17%$329 – $835
Louisiana LA19$377−19%$213 – $491
Kansas KS13$373−19%$204 – $1,107
Utah UT23$369−20%$340 – $410
Michigan MI23$366−21%$326 – $581
Pennsylvania PA42$361−22%$139 – $1,051
West Virginia WV20$340−27%$249 – $673
New Mexico NM11$339−27%$210 – $408
Kentucky KY17$309−33%$237 – $452
Oklahoma OK25$300−35%$300 – $372
North Carolina NC25$291−37%$256 – $304
Tennessee TN21$240−48%$141 – $293
Arkansas AR10$212−54%$52 – $533
Mississippi MS26$141−69%$68 – $355
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not 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 $462.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care832$460$275 – $910
Children’s26$576$274 – $1,892
Critical access211$460$289 – $789
Ownership
For-profit102$533$293 – $1,598
Government178$399$275 – $735
Non-profit789$471$270 – $910
System affiliation
Part of a system882$478$275 – $910
Independent191$403$259 – $832

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$815
Median cash price$462
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

830 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $504 and the average of the middle 60% is $527; most fall between $291 and $945.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 830 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
$222$312$504$803$1,607

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($222 vs $1,607).

Of the 883 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 830 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,073 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 1,152 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,073
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here42
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 — excluded37
Hospitals that filed this code1,152

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 PR Repair Tongue Lacer,Post 1/3.

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 cut up to 2.5 cm on the back of the tongue (CPT 41251) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41251-stitching-a-cut-up-to-2-5-cm-on-the-back-of-the-tongue