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

Removal of a palate or uvula growth with simple closure

CPT 42106the billing code this page is about

Excision of a lesion from the roof of the mouth or uvula, with the wound edges closed by simple stitching.

Hospitals typically charge $2,199 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 470 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,353. Most fall between $411 and $4,801 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
470
States
48
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 470 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
$260$460$2,199$4,290$8,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($260 vs $8,008).

How the prices are spread

$214 – $313: 59 hospitals$214$313 – $458: 38 hospitals$458 – $669: 52 hospitals$458$669 – $979: 30 hospitals$979 – $1,432: 13 hospitals$979$1,432 – $2,095: 26 hospitals$2,095 – $3,065: 15 hospitals$2,095$3,065 – $4,483: 118 hospitals$4,483 – $6,559: 42 hospitals$4,483$6,559 – $9,594: 41 hospitals$6,559median $2,199price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (434 of 470 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$214$31359
$313$45838
$458$66952
$669$97930
$979$1,43213
$1,432$2,09526
$2,095$3,06515
$3,065$4,483118
$4,483$6,55942
$6,559$9,59441

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$2,199
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.65×

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 $2,199.

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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: median $3,123 across 10 hospitalsID$3,123Montana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $807 across 17 hospitalsMN$807Illinois: median $655 across 22 hospitalsIL$655Wisconsin: median $2,014 across 18 hospitalsWI$2,014Michigan: median $252 across 29 hospitalsMI$252New York: median $3,838 across 33 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $460 across 10 hospitalsOR$460Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 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 $658 across 22 hospitalsIA$658Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,601 across 29 hospitalsOH$3,601Pennsylvania: median $3,917 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,917New Jersey: median $4,075 across 30 hospitalsNJ$4,075Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,290 across 44 hospitalsCA$4,290Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,798 across 12 hospitalsMO$1,798Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $264 across 14 hospitalsOK$264Louisiana: median $1,440 across 10 hospitalsLA$1,440Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,276 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,276Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,199. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA44$4,290+95%$2,669 – $8,008
New Jersey NJ30$4,075+85%$3,590 – $5,339
Pennsylvania PA19$3,917+78%$1,357 – $5,483
New York NY33$3,838+75%$676 – $4,460
Ohio OH29$3,601+64%$559 – $4,801
Texas TX24$3,276+49%$3,034 – $3,276
Idaho ID10$3,123+42%$1,562 – $8,795
Wisconsin WI18$2,014−8%$1,801 – $6,178
Missouri MO12$1,798−18%$364 – $6,841
Louisiana LA10$1,440−35%$1,187 – $2,271
Minnesota MN17$807−63%$389 – $947
Iowa IA22$658−70%$516 – $658
Illinois IL22$655−70%$238 – $7,219
Oregon OR10$460−79%$460 – $2,502
Oklahoma OK14$264−88%$264 – $5,639
Michigan MI29$252−89%$214 – $4,559
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $2,199.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care384$3,276$454 – $5,339
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access74$599$335 – $2,999
Ownership
For-profit41$2,271$425 – $4,783
Government69$900$413 – $3,838
Non-profit359$2,617$380 – $5,651
System affiliation
Part of a system377$3,276$392 – $5,110
Independent93$849$412 – $4,290

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,876
Median cash price$2,199
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

254 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,876 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,094; most fall between $338 and $4,501.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 254 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
$255$417$1,876$4,290$8,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($255 vs $8,008).

Of the 284 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 254 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 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

470 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 528 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted470
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here44
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code528

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-Simpl Clos.

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 palate or uvula growth with simple closure (CPT 42106) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42106-removal-of-a-palate-or-uvula-growth-with-simple-closure