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

Removal of a growth on the palate or uvula

CPT 42104the billing code this page is about

Excision of a lesion from the roof of the mouth or uvula, leaving the site to heal without stitched closure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,974 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 741 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,255. Most fall between $362 and $4,620 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
741
States
48
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 741 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
$234$410$1,974$4,139$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($234 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$170 – $252: 47 hospitals$170$252 – $376: 73 hospitals$376 – $559: 79 hospitals$376$559 – $833: 40 hospitals$833 – $1,240: 41 hospitals$833$1,240 – $1,846: 44 hospitals$1,846 – $2,749: 53 hospitals$1,846$2,749 – $4,092: 127 hospitals$4,092 – $6,093: 122 hospitals$4,092$6,093 – $9,071: 41 hospitals$6,093median $1,974price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (667 of 741 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$170$25247
$252$37673
$376$55979
$559$83340
$833$1,24041
$1,240$1,84644
$1,846$2,74953
$2,749$4,092127
$4,092$6,093122
$6,093$9,07141

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$1,974
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.58×

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 $1,974.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,681 across 14 hospitalsWA$2,681Idaho: median $3,850 across 11 hospitalsID$3,850Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $571 across 24 hospitalsMN$571Illinois: median $638 across 37 hospitalsIL$638Wisconsin: median $1,178 across 48 hospitalsWI$1,178Michigan: median $283 across 32 hospitalsMI$283New York: median $3,838 across 52 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: median $3,182 across 14 hospitalsMA$3,182Oregon: median $618 across 19 hospitalsOR$618Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $534 across 25 hospitalsIA$534Indiana: median $1,090 across 25 hospitalsIN$1,090Ohio: median $3,629 across 32 hospitalsOH$3,629Pennsylvania: median $3,802 across 32 hospitalsPA$3,802New Jersey: median $4,290 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,290Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,134 across 50 hospitalsCA$4,134Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $540 across 11 hospitalsNE$540Missouri: median $480 across 21 hospitalsMO$480Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,989 across 13 hospitalsWV$1,989Virginia: median $3,873 across 26 hospitalsVA$3,873Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $450 across 13 hospitalsKS$450Arkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $3,729 across 18 hospitalsNC$3,729South Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $303 across 14 hospitalsOK$303Louisiana: median $1,789 across 11 hospitalsLA$1,789Mississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,507 across 11 hospitalsGA$5,507Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,473 across 25 hospitalsTX$2,473Florida: median $5,571 across 20 hospitalsFL$5,571
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,974. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL20$5,571+182%$4,570 – $9,071
Georgia GA11$5,507+179%$5,507 – $5,538
New Jersey NJ32$4,290+117%$3,593 – $5,741
California CA50$4,134+109%$1,799 – $4,620
Virginia VA26$3,873+96%$1,417 – $7,788
Idaho ID11$3,850+95%$2,617 – $8,795
New York NY52$3,838+94%$364 – $6,155
Pennsylvania PA32$3,802+93%$102 – $4,913
North Carolina NC18$3,729+89%$1,852 – $3,729
Ohio OH32$3,629+84%$439 – $4,644
Massachusetts MA14$3,182+61%$2,028 – $5,992
Washington WA14$2,681+36%$395 – $6,392
Texas TX25$2,473+25%$1,983 – $2,937
West Virginia WV13$1,989+1%$232 – $3,828
Louisiana LA11$1,789−9%$1,350 – $3,289
Wisconsin WI48$1,178−40%$387 – $4,305
Indiana IN25$1,090−45%$203 – $1,674
Illinois IL37$638−68%$242 – $3,410
Oregon OR19$618−69%$395 – $624
Minnesota MN24$571−71%$329 – $862
Nebraska NE11$540−73%$360 – $3,825
Iowa IA25$534−73%$357 – $582
Missouri MO21$480−76%$286 – $4,323
Kansas KS13$450−77%$233 – $5,650
Oklahoma OK14$303−85%$303 – $4,211
Michigan MI32$283−86%$123 – $4,559
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,974.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care575$3,000$387 – $4,645
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access152$618$293 – $1,952
Ownership
For-profit65$3,500$364 – $6,575
Government123$1,856$367 – $3,838
Non-profit551$1,876$360 – $4,620
System affiliation
Part of a system594$2,271$378 – $4,620
Independent147$678$327 – $4,069

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,958
Median cash price$1,974
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

456 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,799 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,996; most fall between $325 and $4,378.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 456 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
$203$381$1,799$4,093$5,571

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 27× what the cheapest tenth charges ($203 vs $5,571).

Of the 485 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 456 gave a usable cash price; 13 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

741 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 813 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted741
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here51
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 — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code813

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 PR Excis Lesn,Palate/Uvula.

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 growth on the palate or uvula (CPT 42104) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42104-removal-of-a-growth-on-the-palate-or-uvula