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

Destruction of a growth on the palate or uvula

CPT 42160the billing code this page is about

Removal of a lesion on the roof of the mouth or uvula by burning, freezing, laser or chemical treatment rather than by cutting it out.

Hospitals typically charge $2,424 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 415 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,530. Most fall between $342 and $5,718 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
415
States
46
Filings dated
Nov 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 415 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
$227$415$2,424$4,783$8,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 35× what the cheapest tenth charges ($227 vs $8,008).

How the prices are spread

$184 – $271: 54 hospitals$184$271 – $399: 25 hospitals$399 – $588: 55 hospitals$399$588 – $865: 11 hospitals$865 – $1,273: 7 hospitals$865$1,273 – $1,874: 16 hospitals$1,874 – $2,758: 34 hospitals$1,874$2,758 – $4,060: 69 hospitals$4,060 – $5,975: 57 hospitals$4,060$5,975 – $8,795: 58 hospitals$5,975median $2,424price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (386 of 415 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$184$27154
$271$39925
$399$58855
$588$86511
$865$1,2737
$1,273$1,87416
$1,874$2,75834
$2,758$4,06069
$4,060$5,97557
$5,975$8,79558

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$2,424
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

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 $2,424.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 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: median $4,926 across 17 hospitalsWA$4,926Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $313 across 17 hospitalsIL$313Wisconsin: median $415 across 12 hospitalsWI$415Michigan: median $184 across 22 hospitalsMI$184New York: median $3,838 across 23 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $6,692 across 18 hospitalsOR$6,692Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 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 $578 across 17 hospitalsIA$578Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $9,697 across 23 hospitalsOH$9,697Pennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $3,986 across 23 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,014 across 57 hospitalsCA$4,014Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: median $2,122 across 10 hospitalsCO$2,122Nebraska: median $491 across 11 hospitalsNE$491Missouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $232 across 13 hospitalsOK$232Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,424 across 23 hospitalsTX$2,424Florida: median $6,511 across 12 hospitalsFL$6,511
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,424. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH23$9,697+300%$531 – $9,697
Oregon OR18$6,692+176%$408 – $8,478
Florida FL12$6,511+169%$3,255 – $12,121
Washington WA17$4,926+103%$408 – $6,572
California CA57$4,014+66%$2,093 – $8,008
New Jersey NJ23$3,986+64%$3,590 – $5,419
New York NY23$3,838+58%$571 – $3,935
Texas TX23$2,4240%$2,162 – $3,793
Colorado CO10$2,122−12%$193 – $2,971
Iowa IA17$578−76%$471 – $4,306
Nebraska NE11$491−80%$290 – $554
Wisconsin WI12$415−83%$415 – $415
Illinois IL17$313−87%$206 – $1,309
Oklahoma OK13$232−90%$232 – $5,020
Michigan MI22$184−92%$184 – $4,559
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $2,424.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care341$3,184$407 – $5,933
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access64$489$206 – $5,548
Ownership
For-profit33$1,493$226 – $4,674
Government55$2,686$353 – $4,385
Non-profit324$2,791$380 – $5,933
System affiliation
Part of a system349$3,434$407 – $6,311
Independent66$466$243 – $3,169

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,072
Median cash price$2,424
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

288 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,162 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,395; most fall between $281 and $6,442.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 288 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
$226$385$2,162$5,020$8,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 35× what the cheapest tenth charges ($226 vs $8,008).

Of the 306 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 288 gave a usable cash price; 11 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

415 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 466 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted415
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) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code466

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 23, 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 Destruc 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, “Destruction of a growth on the palate or uvula (CPT 42160) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42160-destruction-of-a-growth-on-the-palate-or-uvula