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

Stitching a wound of the throat

CPT 42900the billing code this page is about

Surgical repair with sutures of a tear or injury to the pharynx, the passage at the back of the throat.

Hospitals typically charge $1,375 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 328 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,423. Most fall between $571 and $3,007 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
328
States
44
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 328 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
$513$625$1,375$2,241$4,805

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($513 vs $4,805).

How the prices are spread

$347 – $455: 9 hospitals$347$455 – $598: 49 hospitals$598 – $784: 37 hospitals$598$784 – $1,029: 27 hospitals$1,029 – $1,351: 24 hospitals$1,029$1,351 – $1,773: 42 hospitals$1,773 – $2,326: 44 hospitals$1,773$2,326 – $3,053: 17 hospitals$3,053 – $4,007: 16 hospitals$3,053$4,007 – $5,258: 38 hospitals$4,007median $1,375price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (303 of 328 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$347$4559
$455$59849
$598$78437
$784$1,02927
$1,029$1,35124
$1,351$1,77342
$1,773$2,32644
$2,326$3,05317
$3,053$4,00716
$4,007$5,25838

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$1,375
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.87×

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 $1,375.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $579 across 11 hospitalsIL$579Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $514 across 12 hospitalsMI$514New York: median $1,753 across 26 hospitalsNY$1,753Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,689 across 11 hospitalsOR$3,689Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $829 across 18 hospitalsIA$829Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,375 across 10 hospitalsOH$1,375Pennsylvania: median $215 across 18 hospitalsPA$215New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,007 across 43 hospitalsCA$3,007Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $734 across 10 hospitalsNE$734Missouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $602 across 10 hospitalsTN$602North Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $536 across 12 hospitalsOK$536Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $713 across 11 hospitalsMS$713Alabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,199 across 23 hospitalsTX$2,199Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,375. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+175%$1,640 – $5,419
Oregon OR11$3,689+168%$3,264 – $4,136
California CA43$3,007+119%$1,292 – $5,258
Texas TX23$2,199+60%$1,851 – $2,199
New York NY26$1,753+27%$1,050 – $1,937
Ohio OH10$1,3750%$563 – $1,375
Iowa IA18$829−40%$729 – $829
Nebraska NE10$734−47%$625 – $765
Mississippi MS11$713−48%$656 – $1,206
Tennessee TN10$602−56%$548 – $684
Illinois IL11$579−58%$513 – $829
Oklahoma OK12$536−61%$536 – $536
Michigan MI12$514−63%$514 – $2,133
Pennsylvania PA18$215−84%$172 – $2,504
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $1,375.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care277$1,460$591 – $3,125
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access41$968$514 – $2,707
Ownership
For-profit29$1,163$514 – $2,246
Government39$1,048$596 – $1,753
Non-profit259$1,497$579 – $3,260
System affiliation
Part of a system283$1,585$579 – $3,207
Independent45$937$566 – $1,614

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,970
Median cash price$1,375
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

233 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,027 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,293; most fall between $536 and $3,030.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 233 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
$485$588$1,027$2,429$4,136

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($485 vs $4,136).

Of the 246 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 233 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 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

328 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 358 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted328
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code358

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 Suture Injury/Wnd Pharynx.

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, “Stitching a wound of the throat (CPT 42900) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42900-stitching-a-wound-of-the-throat