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Procedure price report · Other OR lower GI therapeutic procedures

Drainage of an abscess under the lining of the rectum

CPT 45005the billing code this page is about

Cutting open and draining a pocket of infection located just beneath the inner lining of the rectum.

Hospitals typically charge $1,277 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,043 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,439. Most fall between $450 and $2,910 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,043
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,043 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
$299$584$1,277$2,551$4,528

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($299 vs $4,528).

How the prices are spread

$206 – $290: 49 hospitals$206$290 – $409: 77 hospitals$409 – $577: 75 hospitals$409$577 – $813: 112 hospitals$813 – $1,146: 112 hospitals$813$1,146 – $1,616: 127 hospitals$1,616 – $2,278: 104 hospitals$1,616$2,278 – $3,212: 154 hospitals$3,212 – $4,528: 80 hospitals$3,212$4,528 – $6,384: 62 hospitals$4,528median $1,277price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (952 of 1,043 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$206$29049
$290$40977
$409$57775
$577$813112
$813$1,146112
$1,146$1,616127
$1,616$2,278104
$2,278$3,212154
$3,212$4,52880
$4,528$6,38462

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,277
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

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 $1,277.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $373 across 11 hospitalsME$373Vermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,621 across 31 hospitalsWA$1,621Idaho: median $1,813 across 12 hospitalsID$1,813Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $371 across 15 hospitalsMN$371Illinois: median $617 across 27 hospitalsIL$617Wisconsin: median $1,216 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,216Michigan: median $843 across 26 hospitalsMI$843New York: median $1,395 across 55 hospitalsNY$1,395Massachusetts: median $2,199 across 21 hospitalsMA$2,199Oregon: median $644 across 23 hospitalsOR$644Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $713 across 32 hospitalsIA$713Indiana: median $641 across 28 hospitalsIN$641Ohio: median $1,126 across 27 hospitalsOH$1,126Pennsylvania: median $1,523 across 49 hospitalsPA$1,523New Jersey: median $3,786 across 33 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,860 across 89 hospitalsCA$2,860Utah: median $1,111 across 24 hospitalsUT$1,111Colorado: median $1,446 across 14 hospitalsCO$1,446Nebraska: median $768 across 20 hospitalsNE$768Missouri: median $1,192 across 19 hospitalsMO$1,192Kentucky: median $320 across 14 hospitalsKY$320West Virginia: median $1,191 across 21 hospitalsWV$1,191Virginia: median $1,649 across 36 hospitalsVA$1,649Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $383 across 15 hospitalsKS$383Arkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,628 across 16 hospitalsTN$1,628North Carolina: median $2,353 across 21 hospitalsNC$2,353South Carolina: median $2,330 across 17 hospitalsSC$2,330Oklahoma: median $737 across 25 hospitalsOK$737Louisiana: median $1,399 across 18 hospitalsLA$1,399Mississippi: median $1,505 across 17 hospitalsMS$1,505Alabama: median $1,104 across 11 hospitalsAL$1,104Georgia: median $5,507 across 25 hospitalsGA$5,507Hawaii: median $2,815 across 12 hospitalsHI$2,815Texas: median $1,294 across 89 hospitalsTX$1,294Florida: median $2,862 across 33 hospitalsFL$2,862
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,277. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA25$5,507+331%$1,275 – $6,839
New Jersey NJ33$3,786+197%$1,305 – $5,855
Florida FL33$2,862+124%$841 – $4,528
California CA89$2,860+124%$1,190 – $6,384
Hawaii HI12$2,815+121%$1,008 – $4,173
North Carolina NC21$2,353+84%$599 – $2,353
South Carolina SC17$2,330+83%$791 – $5,577
Massachusetts MA21$2,199+72%$1,025 – $3,704
Idaho ID12$1,813+42%$626 – $3,234
Virginia VA36$1,649+29%$668 – $3,572
Tennessee TN16$1,628+28%$450 – $1,637
Washington WA31$1,621+27%$454 – $2,687
Pennsylvania PA49$1,523+19%$217 – $3,200
Mississippi MS17$1,505+18%$931 – $2,769
Colorado CO14$1,446+13%$338 – $3,156
Louisiana LA18$1,399+10%$449 – $1,895
New York NY55$1,395+9%$696 – $2,551
Texas TX89$1,294+1%$602 – $2,382
Wisconsin WI31$1,216−5%$856 – $1,216
Missouri MO19$1,192−7%$428 – $2,135
West Virginia WV21$1,191−7%$194 – $1,946
Ohio OH27$1,126−12%$370 – $2,252
Utah UT24$1,111−13%$362 – $1,252
Alabama AL11$1,104−14%$506 – $3,450
Michigan MI26$843−34%$311 – $1,645
Nebraska NE20$768−40%$423 – $1,048
Oklahoma OK25$737−42%$277 – $1,387
Iowa IA32$713−44%$474 – $844
Oregon OR23$644−50%$582 – $3,209
Indiana IN28$641−50%$436 – $2,118
Illinois IL27$617−52%$311 – $2,524
Kansas KS15$383−70%$151 – $659
Maine ME11$373−71%$268 – $979
Minnesota MN15$371−71%$153 – $509
Kentucky KY14$320−75%$244 – $2,193
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,277.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care779$1,514$584 – $3,209
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access244$668$328 – $1,891
Ownership
For-profit100$1,774$584 – $4,858
Government180$984$365 – $2,353
Non-profit762$1,271$511 – $3,078
System affiliation
Part of a system852$1,395$560 – $3,156
Independent191$734$329 – $2,129

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,455
Median cash price$1,277
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

749 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,437 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,602; most fall between $527 and $3,124.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 749 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
$315$668$1,437$2,779$4,942

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($315 vs $4,942).

Of the 815 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 749 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,043 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,136 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,043
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded40
Hospitals that filed this code1,136

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 lower GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as I&D Submucosal Abscess Rectum.

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, “Drainage of an abscess under the lining of the rectum (CPT 45005) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-45005-drainage-of-an-abscess-under-the-lining-of-the-rectum