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

Control of bleeding behind the nose with a return to surgery

CPT 42972the billing code this page is about

Treatment of bleeding at the back of the nose and throat that requires a further operating room procedure to stop the bleeding.

Hospitals typically charge $2,136 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 264 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,286. Most fall between $817 and $5,088 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
264
States
41
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 264 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
$555$928$2,136$4,139$6,675

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($555 vs $6,675).

How the prices are spread

$501 – $652: 21 hospitals$501$652 – $849: 25 hospitals$849 – $1,105: 31 hospitals$849$1,105 – $1,437: 24 hospitals$1,437 – $1,871: 10 hospitals$1,437$1,871 – $2,435: 26 hospitals$2,435 – $3,168: 12 hospitals$2,435$3,168 – $4,123: 36 hospitals$4,123 – $5,366: 19 hospitals$4,123$5,366 – $6,984: 36 hospitals$5,366median $2,136price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (240 of 264 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$501$65221
$652$84925
$849$1,10531
$1,105$1,43724
$1,437$1,87110
$1,871$2,43526
$2,435$3,16812
$3,168$4,12336
$4,123$5,36619
$5,366$6,98436

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$2,136
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $2,136.

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: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 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: median $2,695 across 10 hospitalsMN$2,695Illinois: median $815 across 14 hospitalsIL$815Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $772 across 12 hospitalsMI$772New York: median $3,838 across 23 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,257 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,257Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,981 across 16 hospitalsPA$1,981New Jersey: median $3,986 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,675 across 23 hospitalsCA$6,675Utah: 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: 2 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: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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 $817 across 12 hospitalsOK$817Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 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: median $2,309 across 18 hospitalsTX$2,309Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,136. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA23$6,675+212%$6,675 – $6,675
New Jersey NJ22$3,986+87%$3,590 – $5,419
New York NY23$3,838+80%$1,251 – $3,838
Minnesota MN10$2,695+26%$2,297 – $2,695
Texas TX18$2,309+8%$2,136 – $2,309
Pennsylvania PA16$1,981−7%$103 – $5,483
Iowa IA17$1,257−41%$1,079 – $1,257
Oklahoma OK12$817−62%$817 – $817
Illinois IL14$815−62%$555 – $2,148
Michigan MI12$772−64%$737 – $4,559
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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
Maine ME1not 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

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 $2,136.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care219$2,136$817 – $5,088
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access37$1,479$956 – $6,148
Ownership
For-profit25$2,187$555 – $5,088
Government30$1,155$899 – $3,838
Non-profit209$2,136$828 – $5,855
System affiliation
Part of a system218$2,309$817 – $5,741
Independent46$1,337$914 – $3,710

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,766
Median cash price$2,136
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

157 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,257 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,505; most fall between $635 and $5,036.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 157 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
$501$817$1,257$2,342$6,675

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($501 vs $6,675).

Of the 167 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 157 gave a usable cash price; 8 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

264 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 293 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted264
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code293

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 Ctrl Nasopharyngeal Hemorrhage W/Sec Surg Ivntj.

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, “Control of bleeding behind the nose with a return to surgery (CPT 42972) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-42972-control-of-bleeding-behind-the-nose-with-a-return-to-surgery