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

Removal of the submandibular salivary gland

CPT 42440the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of the salivary gland beneath the jaw.

Hospitals typically charge $4,162 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 618 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,191. Most fall between $822 and $9,920 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
618
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 618 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
$512$960$4,162$8,919$16,358

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 32× what the cheapest tenth charges ($512 vs $16,358).

How the prices are spread

$442 – $663: 49 hospitals$442$663 – $994: 80 hospitals$994 – $1,490: 71 hospitals$994$1,490 – $2,234: 49 hospitals$2,234 – $3,349: 13 hospitals$2,234$3,349 – $5,022: 40 hospitals$5,022 – $7,531: 97 hospitals$5,022$7,531 – $11,292: 81 hospitals$11,292 – $16,931: 55 hospitals$11,292$16,931 – $25,387: 23 hospitals$16,931median $4,162price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (558 of 618 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$442$66349
$663$99480
$994$1,49071
$1,490$2,23449
$2,234$3,34913
$3,349$5,02240
$5,022$7,53197
$7,531$11,29281
$11,292$16,93155
$16,931$25,38723

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$4,162
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.69×

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 $4,162.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,060 across 11 hospitalsWA$1,060Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,614 across 25 hospitalsMN$3,614Illinois: median $1,022 across 24 hospitalsIL$1,022Wisconsin: median $3,013 across 31 hospitalsWI$3,013Michigan: median $1,872 across 35 hospitalsMI$1,872New York: median $7,000 across 51 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,053 across 17 hospitalsOR$1,053Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,022 across 27 hospitalsIA$1,022Indiana: median $822 across 14 hospitalsIN$822Ohio: median $1,756 across 25 hospitalsOH$1,756Pennsylvania: median $6,936 across 25 hospitalsPA$6,936New Jersey: median $6,548 across 32 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $16,358 across 39 hospitalsCA$16,358Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,030 across 12 hospitalsNE$1,030Missouri: median $4,322 across 18 hospitalsMO$4,322Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,487 across 10 hospitalsWV$1,487Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 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 $1,306 across 10 hospitalsKS$1,306Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $6,603 across 11 hospitalsNC$6,603South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $878 across 15 hospitalsOK$878Louisiana: median $5,099 across 10 hospitalsLA$5,099Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $5,989 across 11 hospitalsGA$5,989Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,314 across 33 hospitalsTX$5,314Florida: median $9,100 across 13 hospitalsFL$9,100
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,162. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$16,358+293%$1,354 – $16,358
Florida FL13$9,100+119%$1,756 – $13,845
New York NY51$7,000+68%$1,030 – $9,188
Pennsylvania PA25$6,936+67%$270 – $11,887
North Carolina NC11$6,603+59%$4,364 – $11,967
New Jersey NJ32$6,548+57%$5,110 – $7,894
Georgia GA11$5,989+44%$5,989 – $6,728
Texas TX33$5,314+28%$5,245 – $8,055
Louisiana LA10$5,099+22%$2,549 – $10,691
Missouri MO18$4,322+4%$711 – $15,332
Minnesota MN25$3,614−13%$1,016 – $4,240
Wisconsin WI31$3,013−28%$2,207 – $8,919
Michigan MI35$1,872−55%$442 – $8,140
Ohio OH25$1,756−58%$818 – $19,252
West Virginia WV10$1,487−64%$439 – $7,729
Kansas KS10$1,306−69%$843 – $8,134
Washington WA11$1,060−75%$723 – $17,874
Oregon OR17$1,053−75%$768 – $1,170
Nebraska NE12$1,030−75%$846 – $4,483
Iowa IA27$1,022−75%$1,022 – $1,561
Illinois IL24$1,022−75%$786 – $15,190
Oklahoma OK15$878−79%$878 – $12,080
Indiana IN14$822−80%$489 – $8,691
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $4,162.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care488$5,245$848 – $11,518
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access119$1,250$822 – $5,967
Ownership
For-profit69$7,664$1,468 – $15,129
Government100$1,718$752 – $7,379
Non-profit448$3,956$822 – $9,564
System affiliation
Part of a system482$5,013$848 – $10,764
Independent136$1,521$799 – $8,134

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,229
Median cash price$4,162
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

298 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,224 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,110; most fall between $711 and $5,989.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 298 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
$455$816$1,224$5,314$12,739

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($455 vs $12,739).

Of the 328 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 298 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

618 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 691 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted618
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code691

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 Excision Submandibular Submaxillary Gland.

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 the submandibular salivary gland (CPT 42440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42440-removal-of-the-submandibular-salivary-gland