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

Suture suspension of the base of the tongue

CPT 41512the billing code this page is about

Operation that uses permanent stitches to pull the base of the tongue forward so it does not fall back into the throat.

Hospitals typically charge $3,999 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 179 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,198. Most fall between $1,079 and $6,839 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
179
States
32
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 179 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
$667$1,217$3,999$6,383$7,390

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($667 vs $7,390).

How the prices are spread

$627 – $820: 14 hospitals$627$820 – $1,073: 6 hospitals$1,073 – $1,403: 26 hospitals$1,073$1,403 – $1,835: 23 hospitals$1,835 – $2,400: 3 hospitals$1,835$2,400 – $3,139: 5 hospitals$3,139 – $4,106: 30 hospitals$3,139$4,106 – $5,370: 13 hospitals$5,370 – $7,024: 29 hospitals$5,370$7,024 – $9,186: 14 hospitals$7,024median $3,999price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (163 of 179 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$627$82014
$820$1,0736
$1,073$1,40326
$1,403$1,83523
$1,835$2,4003
$2,400$3,1395
$3,139$4,10630
$4,106$5,37013
$5,370$7,02429
$7,024$9,18614

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$3,999
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.66×

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 $3,999.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $7,000 across 20 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 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 $1,622 across 12 hospitalsIA$1,622Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $6,311 across 22 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,082 across 21 hospitalsCA$4,082Utah: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital 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 $1,079 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,079Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $4,556 across 19 hospitalsTX$4,556Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,999. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New York NY20$7,000+75%$1,559 – $7,000
New Jersey NJ22$6,311+58%$4,881 – $6,553
Texas TX19$4,556+14%$3,999 – $4,556
California CA21$4,082+2%$4,082 – $4,082
Iowa IA12$1,622−59%$1,622 – $1,622
Oklahoma OK12$1,079−73%$1,079 – $1,079
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not 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
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $3,999.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care164$3,999$1,079 – $6,967
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access8fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit140$3,999$1,079 – $6,523
System affiliation
Part of a system150$3,999$1,079 – $6,553
Independent29$1,638$937 – $7,264

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,087
Median cash price$3,999
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

108 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,622 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,449; most fall between $1,078 and $4,082.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 108 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
$652$1,079$1,622$4,082$4,556

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($652 vs $4,556).

Of the 125 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 108 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 0 a list price only.

How complete is this

179 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 203 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted179
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded3
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code203

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 23, 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 PR Tongue Base Suspension Permanent Suture Tq.

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, “Suture suspension of the base of the tongue (CPT 41512) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41512-suture-suspension-of-the-base-of-the-tongue