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

Surgical opening into the throat for feeding

CPT 42955the billing code this page is about

Creation of a permanent opening through the neck into the pharynx, generally so a feeding tube can be placed.

Hospitals typically charge $1,842 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 195 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,039. Most fall between $995 and $4,054 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
195
States
39
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 195 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
$791$1,231$1,842$3,190$4,693

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($791 vs $4,693).

How the prices are spread

$688 – $840: 23 hospitals$688$840 – $1,027: 8 hospitals$1,027 – $1,255: 14 hospitals$1,027$1,255 – $1,534: 13 hospitals$1,534 – $1,874: 43 hospitals$1,534$1,874 – $2,291: 18 hospitals$2,291 – $2,799: 13 hospitals$2,291$2,799 – $3,421: 9 hospitals$3,421 – $4,181: 11 hospitals$3,421$4,181 – $5,110: 25 hospitals$4,181median $1,842price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (177 of 195 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$688$84023
$840$1,0278
$1,027$1,25514
$1,255$1,53413
$1,534$1,87443
$1,874$2,29118
$2,291$2,79913
$2,799$3,4219
$3,421$4,18111
$4,181$5,11025

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$1,842
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.16×

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 $1,842.

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: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $884 across 12 hospitalsIL$884Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $814 across 18 hospitalsMI$814New York: median $1,753 across 19 hospitalsNY$1,753Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,870 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,870Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,238 across 11 hospitalsPA$2,238New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,693 across 21 hospitalsCA$4,693Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth 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 $1,231 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,231Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,842. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA21$4,693+155%$4,693 – $4,693
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+106%$1,640 – $5,419
Pennsylvania PA11$2,238+22%$482 – $2,791
Iowa IA14$1,870+2%$1,870 – $1,870
New York NY19$1,753−5%$1,753 – $1,842
Oklahoma OK12$1,231−33%$1,231 – $1,231
Illinois IL12$884−52%$566 – $1,870
Michigan MI18$814−56%$814 – $2,133
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $1,842.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care172$1,842$1,024 – $4,143
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access17fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government26$1,753$1,359 – $2,263
Non-profit151$1,870$952 – $4,350
System affiliation
Part of a system162$1,870$995 – $4,350
Independent33$1,584$1,024 – $2,554

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,310
Median cash price$1,842
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

102 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,870 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,150; most fall between $1,231 and $4,054.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 102 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
$753$1,231$1,870$3,741$4,693

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($753 vs $4,693).

Of the 118 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 102 gave a usable cash price; 14 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

195 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 216 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted195
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here18
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code216

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 Pharyngostomy Fstlj Pharynx Xtrnl Feeding.

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, “Surgical opening into the throat for feeding (CPT 42955) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42955-surgical-opening-into-the-throat-for-feeding