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

Unlisted procedure on the palate or uvula

CPT 42299the billing code this page is about

Used for an operation on the roof of the mouth or uvula that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $336 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 288 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $452. Most fall between $231 and $1,480 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
288
States
43
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 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
$168$243$336$905$4,167

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($168 vs $4,167).

How the prices are spread

$135 – $197: 33 hospitals$135$197 – $287: 72 hospitals$287 – $418: 38 hospitals$287$418 – $609: 45 hospitals$609 – $888: 13 hospitals$609$888 – $1,295: 12 hospitals$1,295 – $1,889: 7 hospitals$1,295$1,889 – $2,754: 9 hospitals$2,754 – $4,016: 13 hospitals$2,754$4,016 – $5,855: 18 hospitals$4,016median $336price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (260 of 288 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$135$19733
$197$28772
$287$41838
$418$60945
$609$88813
$888$1,29512
$1,295$1,8897
$1,889$2,7549
$2,754$4,01613
$4,016$5,85518

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$242
Median cash price$336
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.39×

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 $336.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $501 across 12 hospitalsIL$501Wisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $454 across 14 hospitalsMI$454New York: median $275 across 21 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $161 across 17 hospitalsPA$161New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $571 across 34 hospitalsCA$571Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $905 across 10 hospitalsSC$905Oklahoma: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $155 across 10 hospitalsMS$155Alabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $243 across 42 hospitalsTX$243Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $336. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+1027%$257 – $5,419
South Carolina SC10$905+169%$211 – $4,167
California CA34$571+70%$231 – $571
Illinois IL12$501+49%$302 – $1,532
Michigan MI14$454+35%$326 – $3,307
New York NY21$275−18%$275 – $445
Texas TX42$243−28%$187 – $449
Pennsylvania PA17$161−52%$118 – $437
Mississippi MS10$155−54%$135 – $282
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $336.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care261$356$231 – $1,592
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access18fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit28$270$220 – $683
Government36$594$275 – $2,401
Non-profit224$329$211 – $1,375
System affiliation
Part of a system244$329$229 – $1,670
Independent44$363$259 – $979

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$707
Median cash price$336
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

187 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $309 and the average of the middle 60% is $386; most fall between $187 and $905.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 187 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
$148$203$309$626$2,700

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($148 vs $2,700).

Of the 200 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 187 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

288 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 312 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted288
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code312

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 Palatal Exam Under Anesthesia C/T 92502.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the palate or uvula (CPT 42299) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42299-unlisted-procedure-on-the-palate-or-uvula