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

Removal of a neck cyst limited to the skin layers

CPT 42810the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove a branchial cleft cyst or leftover tissue from birth that sits only in the skin and the fat just beneath it.

Hospitals typically charge $1,935 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 504 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,453. Most fall between $633 and $5,477 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
504
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 504 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
$399$712$1,935$4,798$8,795

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($399 vs $8,795).

How the prices are spread

$353 – $491: 52 hospitals$353$491 – $684: 39 hospitals$684 – $951: 67 hospitals$684$951 – $1,322: 37 hospitals$1,322 – $1,839: 31 hospitals$1,322$1,839 – $2,557: 16 hospitals$2,557 – $3,556: 40 hospitals$2,557$3,556 – $4,946: 78 hospitals$4,946 – $6,878: 41 hospitals$4,946$6,878 – $9,566: 53 hospitals$6,878median $1,935price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (454 of 504 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$353$49152
$491$68439
$684$95167
$951$1,32237
$1,322$1,83931
$1,839$2,55716
$2,557$3,55640
$3,556$4,94678
$4,946$6,87841
$6,878$9,56653

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$1,935
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $1,935.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,070 across 19 hospitalsMN$1,070Illinois: median $555 across 18 hospitalsIL$555Wisconsin: median $1,782 across 33 hospitalsWI$1,782Michigan: median $527 across 30 hospitalsMI$527New York: median $3,838 across 37 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,107 across 14 hospitalsOR$1,107Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $946 across 21 hospitalsIA$946Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $879 across 16 hospitalsOH$879Pennsylvania: median $1,981 across 22 hospitalsPA$1,981New Jersey: median $4,327 across 30 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 $8,999 across 45 hospitalsCA$8,999Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 5 hospitals 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $633 across 14 hospitalsOK$633Louisiana: median $2,341 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,341Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,497 across 24 hospitalsTX$3,497Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,935. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA45$8,999+365%$2,074 – $8,999
New Jersey NJ30$4,327+124%$3,590 – $5,339
New York NY37$3,838+98%$830 – $4,139
Texas TX24$3,497+81%$1,320 – $3,497
Louisiana LA11$2,341+21%$740 – $5,299
Pennsylvania PA22$1,981+2%$183 – $5,789
Wisconsin WI33$1,782−8%$1,689 – $4,798
Oregon OR14$1,107−43%$712 – $8,886
Minnesota MN19$1,070−45%$643 – $1,255
Iowa IA21$946−51%$794 – $974
Ohio OH16$879−55%$658 – $3,434
Oklahoma OK14$633−67%$633 – $6,612
Illinois IL18$555−71%$399 – $4,386
Michigan MI30$527−73%$377 – $2,544
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not 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 $1,935.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care403$3,487$633 – $6,145
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access85$1,107$511 – $2,272
Ownership
For-profit45$3,605$633 – $7,158
Government76$1,135$595 – $5,406
Non-profit383$1,981$633 – $5,269
System affiliation
Part of a system402$2,469$647 – $5,741
Independent102$1,176$498 – $4,783

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,760
Median cash price$1,935
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

280 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,627 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,033; most fall between $633 and $5,223.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 280 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
$399$658$1,627$4,560$8,795

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($399 vs $8,795).

Of the 301 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 280 gave a usable cash price; 17 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

504 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 548 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted504
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here38
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code548

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 OR therapeutic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Branchial Cleft Cyst Confined Skn&Subq Tis.

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 a neck cyst limited to the skin layers (CPT 42810) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42810-removal-of-a-neck-cyst-limited-to-the-skin-layers