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

Complex or repeat repair of a salivary duct

CPT 42505the billing code this page is about

Surgical reconstruction of a salivary gland duct when the repair is a redo or otherwise complicated.

Hospitals typically charge $3,986 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 289 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,900. Most fall between $828 and $8,140 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
289
States
43
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 289 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
$517$893$3,986$7,027$14,319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($517 vs $14,319).

How the prices are spread

$478 – $671: 25 hospitals$478$671 – $943: 42 hospitals$943 – $1,325: 24 hospitals$943$1,325 – $1,862: 27 hospitals$1,862 – $2,616: 4 hospitals$1,862$2,616 – $3,675: 3 hospitals$3,675 – $5,163: 20 hospitals$3,675$5,163 – $7,254: 58 hospitals$7,254 – $10,192: 30 hospitals$7,254$10,192 – $14,319: 32 hospitals$10,192median $3,986price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (265 of 289 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$478$67125
$671$94342
$943$1,32524
$1,325$1,86227
$1,862$2,6164
$2,616$3,6753
$3,675$5,16320
$5,163$7,25458
$7,254$10,19230
$10,192$14,31932

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$3,986
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.66×

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 $3,986.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $893 across 12 hospitalsIL$893Wisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $550 across 25 hospitalsMI$550New York: median $7,000 across 22 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,382 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,382Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $3,908 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,908New Jersey: median $6,548 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $14,319 across 25 hospitalsCA$14,319Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 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 $758 across 13 hospitalsOK$758Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $5,245 across 20 hospitalsTX$5,245Florida: median $5,938 across 10 hospitalsFL$5,938
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,986. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$14,319+259%$5,801 – $14,319
New York NY22$7,000+76%$6,048 – $7,390
New Jersey NJ29$6,548+64%$5,110 – $7,659
Florida FL10$5,938+49%$1,643 – $8,438
Texas TX20$5,245+32%$5,245 – $5,664
Pennsylvania PA19$3,908−2%$283 – $10,001
Iowa IA14$1,382−65%$1,382 – $1,382
Illinois IL12$893−78%$790 – $2,334
Oklahoma OK13$758−81%$758 – $12,061
Michigan MI25$550−86%$480 – $4,701
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $3,986.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care255$4,858$810 – $8,140
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access26$1,098$893 – $5,245
Ownership
For-profit34$5,079$893 – $9,422
Government36$4,015$916 – $7,000
Non-profit218$3,786$758 – $7,894
System affiliation
Part of a system241$4,786$833 – $8,140
Independent48$1,376$828 – $7,264

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,088
Median cash price$3,986
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

154 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,382 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,154; most fall between $828 and $11,147.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 154 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
$653$893$1,382$7,761$14,319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($653 vs $14,319).

Of the 170 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 154 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 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

289 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 322 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted289
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code322

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 23, 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 OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Repair Salivary Duct Complicated.

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, “Complex or repeat repair of a salivary duct (CPT 42505) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42505-complex-or-repeat-repair-of-a-salivary-duct