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Procedure price report · Oral and Dental Services

Draining an abscess or cyst of the gum or tooth socket

CPT 41800the billing code this page is about

Opening and draining an abscess, cyst, or collection of blood in the gum, tooth socket, or supporting jaw structures.

Hospitals typically charge $341 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,314 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $350. Most fall between $172 and $608 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,314
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 2,314 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
$129$196$341$532$820

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($129 vs $820).

How the prices are spread

$98 – $126: 109 hospitals$98$126 – $163: 199 hospitals$163 – $210: 233 hospitals$163$210 – $272: 231 hospitals$272 – $350: 303 hospitals$272$350 – $452: 356 hospitals$452 – $583: 264 hospitals$452$583 – $752: 182 hospitals$752 – $970: 158 hospitals$752$970 – $1,252: 54 hospitals$970median $341price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,089 of 2,314 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$98$126109
$126$163199
$163$210233
$210$272231
$272$350303
$350$452356
$452$583264
$583$752182
$752$970158
$970$1,25254

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$341
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.5×

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 $341.

Alaska: median $672 across 11 hospitalsAK$672Maine: median $163 across 22 hospitalsME$163Vermont: median $458 across 12 hospitalsVT$458New Hampshire: median $165 across 18 hospitalsNH$165Washington: median $415 across 68 hospitalsWA$415Idaho: median $360 across 17 hospitalsID$360Montana: median $317 across 22 hospitalsMT$317North Dakota: median $239 across 20 hospitalsND$239Minnesota: median $371 across 80 hospitalsMN$371Illinois: median $337 across 103 hospitalsIL$337Wisconsin: median $325 across 71 hospitalsWI$325Michigan: median $266 across 70 hospitalsMI$266New York: median $265 across 91 hospitalsNY$265Massachusetts: median $637 across 43 hospitalsMA$637Oregon: median $425 across 51 hospitalsOR$425Nevada: median $574 across 17 hospitalsNV$574Wyoming: median $422 across 13 hospitalsWY$422South Dakota: median $360 across 20 hospitalsSD$360Iowa: median $313 across 59 hospitalsIA$313Indiana: median $355 across 51 hospitalsIN$355Ohio: median $385 across 98 hospitalsOH$385Pennsylvania: median $391 across 110 hospitalsPA$391New Jersey: median $310 across 48 hospitalsNJ$310Connecticut: median $376 across 16 hospitalsCT$376Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $484 across 131 hospitalsCA$484Utah: median $437 across 28 hospitalsUT$437Colorado: median $353 across 46 hospitalsCO$353Nebraska: median $274 across 43 hospitalsNE$274Missouri: median $307 across 47 hospitalsMO$307Kentucky: median $259 across 36 hospitalsKY$259West Virginia: median $200 across 35 hospitalsWV$200Virginia: median $231 across 54 hospitalsVA$231Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $341 across 25 hospitalsAZ$341New Mexico: median $520 across 21 hospitalsNM$520Kansas: median $264 across 50 hospitalsKS$264Arkansas: median $359 across 23 hospitalsAR$359Tennessee: median $206 across 47 hospitalsTN$206North Carolina: median $290 across 53 hospitalsNC$290South Carolina: median $420 across 43 hospitalsSC$420Oklahoma: median $270 across 54 hospitalsOK$270Louisiana: median $187 across 40 hospitalsLA$187Mississippi: median $116 across 43 hospitalsMS$116Alabama: median $288 across 19 hospitalsAL$288Georgia: median $354 across 76 hospitalsGA$354Hawaii: median $522 across 15 hospitalsHI$522Texas: median $367 across 154 hospitalsTX$367Florida: median $482 across 86 hospitalsFL$482
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $341. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Alaska AK11$672+97%$231 – $801
Massachusetts MA43$637+87%$315 – $1,747
Nevada NV17$574+68%$162 – $734
Hawaii HI15$522+53%$308 – $530
New Mexico NM21$520+53%$159 – $1,700
California CA131$484+42%$262 – $801
Florida FL86$482+41%$286 – $1,026
Vermont VT12$458+34%$214 – $735
Utah UT28$437+28%$363 – $466
Oregon OR51$425+25%$303 – $649
Wyoming WY13$422+24%$194 – $518
South Carolina SC43$420+23%$220 – $811
Washington WA68$415+22%$248 – $827
Pennsylvania PA110$391+15%$151 – $1,015
Ohio OH98$385+13%$229 – $528
Connecticut CT16$376+10%$173 – $840
Minnesota MN80$371+9%$230 – $438
Texas TX154$367+8%$133 – $604
Idaho ID17$360+6%$283 – $454
South Dakota SD20$360+6%$348 – $450
Arkansas AR23$359+5%$150 – $501
Indiana IN51$355+4%$231 – $553
Georgia GA76$354+4%$146 – $795
Colorado CO46$353+4%$275 – $557
Arizona AZ25$3410%$308 – $773
Illinois IL103$337−1%$150 – $621
Wisconsin WI71$325−5%$198 – $820
Montana MT22$317−7%$172 – $442
Iowa IA59$313−8%$174 – $539
New Jersey NJ48$310−9%$154 – $4,350
Missouri MO47$307−10%$159 – $496
North Carolina NC53$290−15%$135 – $435
Alabama AL19$288−15%$118 – $621
Nebraska NE43$274−20%$195 – $516
Oklahoma OK54$270−21%$125 – $399
Michigan MI70$266−22%$183 – $513
New York NY91$265−22%$153 – $575
Kansas KS50$264−23%$139 – $398
Kentucky KY36$259−24%$161 – $374
North Dakota ND20$239−30%$133 – $402
Virginia VA54$231−32%$133 – $427
Tennessee TN47$206−40%$176 – $407
West Virginia WV35$200−41%$153 – $389
Louisiana LA40$187−45%$102 – $338
New Hampshire NH18$165−52%$83 – $305
Maine ME22$163−52%$114 – $321
Mississippi MS43$116−66%$80 – $256
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE6not 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 $341.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,614$345$166 – $643
Children’s32$551$208 – $943
Critical access661$331$196 – $528
Ownership
For-profit243$399$183 – $905
Government438$311$161 – $493
Non-profit1,626$343$172 – $609
System affiliation
Part of a system1,861$354$173 – $642
Independent453$286$162 – $482

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$549
Median cash price$341
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

1,716 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $354 and the average of the middle 60% is $365; most fall between $189 and $621.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,716 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
$133$210$354$557$824

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($133 vs $824).

Of the 1,826 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,716 gave a usable cash price; 38 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 72 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,314 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,470 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,314
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded80
Hospitals that filed this code2,470

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 Oral and Dental Services family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Drg Absc Cst Hmtma From Dentoalveolar Struxs.

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 or cyst of the gum or tooth socket (CPT 41800) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-41800-draining-an-abscess-or-cyst-of-the-gum-or-tooth-socket