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

Removal of salivary stone through the mouth, simple

CPT 42330the billing code this page is about

Removal of a stone from a salivary gland or its duct through an incision inside the mouth, in a straightforward case.

Hospitals typically charge $2,437 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 941 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,526. Most fall between $456 and $5,419 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
941
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 941 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
$273$593$2,437$4,644$7,997

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($273 vs $7,997).

How the prices are spread

$209 – $305: 60 hospitals$209$305 – $445: 79 hospitals$445 – $650: 62 hospitals$445$650 – $949: 57 hospitals$949 – $1,385: 42 hospitals$949$1,385 – $2,022: 85 hospitals$2,022 – $2,953: 95 hospitals$2,022$2,953 – $4,311: 153 hospitals$4,311 – $6,294: 110 hospitals$4,311$6,294 – $9,189: 104 hospitals$6,294median $2,437price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (847 of 941 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$209$30560
$305$44579
$445$65062
$650$94957
$949$1,38542
$1,385$2,02285
$2,022$2,95395
$2,953$4,311153
$4,311$6,294110
$6,294$9,189104

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$2,437
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 $2,437.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 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 $4,979 across 27 hospitalsWA$4,979Idaho: median $2,850 across 10 hospitalsID$2,850Montana: 6 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 $1,716 across 37 hospitalsMN$1,716Illinois: median $1,135 across 38 hospitalsIL$1,135Wisconsin: median $782 across 48 hospitalsWI$782Michigan: median $782 across 54 hospitalsMI$782New York: median $3,838 across 50 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: median $3,071 across 20 hospitalsMA$3,071Oregon: median $664 across 31 hospitalsOR$664Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $572 across 24 hospitalsIA$572Indiana: median $329 across 22 hospitalsIN$329Ohio: median $3,434 across 36 hospitalsOH$3,434Pennsylvania: median $3,917 across 38 hospitalsPA$3,917New Jersey: median $4,327 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,327Connecticut: median $4,126 across 11 hospitalsCT$4,126Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,988 across 69 hospitalsCA$3,988Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,768 across 26 hospitalsCO$2,768Nebraska: median $1,367 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,367Missouri: median $941 across 26 hospitalsMO$941Kentucky: median $1,475 across 13 hospitalsKY$1,475West Virginia: median $407 across 16 hospitalsWV$407Virginia: median $2,099 across 16 hospitalsVA$2,099Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 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 $1,376 across 17 hospitalsNC$1,376South Carolina: median $3,670 across 13 hospitalsSC$3,670Oklahoma: median $273 across 19 hospitalsOK$273Louisiana: median $1,774 across 17 hospitalsLA$1,774Mississippi: median $270 across 10 hospitalsMS$270Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,766 across 24 hospitalsGA$3,766Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,763 across 47 hospitalsTX$2,763Florida: median $5,571 across 26 hospitalsFL$5,571
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,437. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL26$5,571+129%$3,390 – $7,143
Washington WA27$4,979+104%$1,089 – $7,060
New Jersey NJ35$4,327+78%$3,590 – $5,339
Connecticut CT11$4,126+69%$2,273 – $9,113
California CA69$3,988+64%$1,858 – $8,966
Pennsylvania PA38$3,917+61%$1,638 – $5,036
New York NY50$3,838+57%$713 – $6,166
Georgia GA24$3,766+55%$1,960 – $5,230
South Carolina SC13$3,670+51%$2,749 – $5,838
Ohio OH36$3,434+41%$588 – $4,644
Massachusetts MA20$3,071+26%$1,724 – $5,050
Idaho ID10$2,850+17%$1,606 – $8,795
Colorado CO26$2,768+14%$2,503 – $7,687
Texas TX47$2,763+13%$2,437 – $3,784
Virginia VA16$2,099−14%$1,448 – $2,099
Louisiana LA17$1,774−27%$737 – $4,636
Minnesota MN37$1,716−30%$464 – $7,765
Kentucky KY13$1,475−39%$215 – $13,022
North Carolina NC17$1,376−44%$548 – $2,785
Nebraska NE17$1,367−44%$399 – $1,513
Illinois IL38$1,135−53%$429 – $7,099
Missouri MO26$941−61%$326 – $4,323
Michigan MI54$782−68%$196 – $6,575
Wisconsin WI48$782−68%$414 – $2,434
Oregon OR31$664−73%$427 – $7,897
Iowa IA24$572−77%$474 – $1,716
West Virginia WV16$407−83%$171 – $3,811
Indiana IN22$329−86%$245 – $766
Oklahoma OK19$273−89%$273 – $5,378
Mississippi MS10$270−89%$239 – $2,073
South Dakota SD9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $2,437.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care741$2,857$610 – $5,760
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access185$634$270 – $3,283
Ownership
For-profit75$2,620$1,033 – $5,230
Government138$1,956$399 – $4,843
Non-profit725$2,437$474 – $5,632
System affiliation
Part of a system790$2,667$480 – $5,571
Independent151$1,099$342 – $4,254

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,087
Median cash price$2,437
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

650 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,437 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,609; most fall between $472 and $5,650.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 650 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
$320$702$2,437$4,979$8,066

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($320 vs $8,066).

Of the 694 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 650 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 21 a list price only.

How complete is this

941 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (24%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,022 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted941
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
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 — excluded27
Hospitals that filed this code1,022

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 Sialot Submndblr Sublngl/Prtd Uncomp Intraoral.

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 salivary stone through the mouth, simple (CPT 42330) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42330-removal-of-salivary-stone-through-the-mouth-simple