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

Removal or destruction of a throat lesion

CPT 42808the billing code this page is about

Cutting out or destroying a growth or abnormal tissue in the throat by any method.

Hospitals typically charge $1,564 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 593 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,014. Most fall between $383 and $4,627 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
593
States
47
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 593 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
$251$439$1,564$4,030$6,628

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($251 vs $6,628).

How the prices are spread

$197 – $291: 53 hospitals$197$291 – $430: 65 hospitals$430 – $635: 75 hospitals$430$635 – $937: 33 hospitals$937 – $1,384: 31 hospitals$937$1,384 – $2,042: 29 hospitals$2,042 – $3,015: 48 hospitals$2,042$3,015 – $4,450: 105 hospitals$4,450 – $6,569: 65 hospitals$4,450$6,569 – $9,697: 33 hospitals$6,569median $1,564price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (537 of 593 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$197$29153
$291$43065
$430$63575
$635$93733
$937$1,38431
$1,384$2,04229
$2,042$3,01548
$3,015$4,450105
$4,450$6,56965
$6,569$9,69733

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$1,564
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.46×

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 $1,564.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 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 $4,109 across 11 hospitalsWA$4,109Idaho: median $2,678 across 11 hospitalsID$2,678Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $986 across 22 hospitalsMN$986Illinois: median $1,153 across 31 hospitalsIL$1,153Wisconsin: median $1,527 across 34 hospitalsWI$1,527Michigan: median $314 across 32 hospitalsMI$314New York: median $3,387 across 40 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $427 across 15 hospitalsOR$427Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $563 across 25 hospitalsIA$563Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $611 across 20 hospitalsOH$611Pennsylvania: median $1,323 across 21 hospitalsPA$1,323New Jersey: median $4,327 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,327Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,030 across 52 hospitalsCA$4,030Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $547 across 14 hospitalsNE$547Missouri: median $525 across 16 hospitalsMO$525Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,202 across 10 hospitalsWV$3,202Virginia: 6 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $410 across 10 hospitalsTN$410North Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $275 across 15 hospitalsOK$275Louisiana: median $1,542 across 16 hospitalsLA$1,542Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,588 across 22 hospitalsTX$2,588Florida: median $7,884 across 12 hospitalsFL$7,884
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,564. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL12$7,884+404%$4,313 – $12,121
New Jersey NJ31$4,327+177%$3,593 – $5,419
Washington WA11$4,109+163%$676 – $7,851
California CA52$4,030+158%$2,599 – $6,082
New York NY40$3,387+117%$447 – $3,935
West Virginia WV10$3,202+105%$602 – $3,811
Idaho ID11$2,678+71%$2,187 – $8,795
Texas TX22$2,588+65%$2,588 – $3,557
Louisiana LA16$1,542−1%$1,125 – $2,136
Wisconsin WI34$1,527−2%$631 – $3,739
Pennsylvania PA21$1,323−15%$108 – $5,483
Illinois IL31$1,153−26%$427 – $7,340
Minnesota MN22$986−37%$400 – $1,005
Ohio OH20$611−61%$314 – $4,330
Iowa IA25$563−64%$415 – $563
Nebraska NE14$547−65%$396 – $2,844
Missouri MO16$525−66%$324 – $3,241
Oregon OR15$427−73%$359 – $659
Tennessee TN10$410−74%$220 – $4,185
Michigan MI32$314−80%$197 – $4,559
Oklahoma OK15$275−82%$275 – $640
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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 $1,564.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care457$2,540$410 – $5,299
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access122$631$348 – $2,999
Ownership
For-profit60$3,051$439 – $6,660
Government96$778$397 – $3,838
Non-profit436$1,527$378 – $4,559
System affiliation
Part of a system475$1,975$396 – $5,060
Independent118$769$340 – $3,835

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,697
Median cash price$1,564
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

349 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $676 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,474; most fall between $309 and $4,030.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 349 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
$240$383$676$3,557$6,082

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($240 vs $6,082).

Of the 385 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 349 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

593 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 662 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted593
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code662

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/Destruction Lesion Pharynx Any Method.

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 or destruction of a throat lesion (CPT 42808) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42808-removal-or-destruction-of-a-throat-lesion