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Procedure price report · Other OR lower GI therapeutic procedures

Removal of an anal seton or marker

CPT 46030the billing code this page is about

Taking out a seton thread or other marker previously placed in an anal fistula tract.

Hospitals typically charge $1,147 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 689 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,246. Most fall between $242 and $3,302 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
689
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 689 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
$158$303$1,147$2,860$4,862

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($158 vs $4,862).

How the prices are spread

$133 – $196: 72 hospitals$133$196 – $290: 59 hospitals$290 – $428: 56 hospitals$290$428 – $633: 58 hospitals$633 – $935: 33 hospitals$633$935 – $1,383: 91 hospitals$1,383 – $2,044: 65 hospitals$1,383$2,044 – $3,022: 64 hospitals$3,022 – $4,467: 73 hospitals$3,022$4,467 – $6,603: 50 hospitals$4,467median $1,147price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (621 of 689 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$133$19672
$196$29059
$290$42856
$428$63358
$633$93533
$935$1,38391
$1,383$2,04465
$2,044$3,02264
$3,022$4,46773
$4,467$6,60350

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,147
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.94×

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 $1,147.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,810 across 22 hospitalsWA$1,810Idaho: median $1,854 across 11 hospitalsID$1,854Montana: 8 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 $712 across 19 hospitalsMN$712Illinois: median $459 across 29 hospitalsIL$459Wisconsin: median $622 across 44 hospitalsWI$622Michigan: median $198 across 38 hospitalsMI$198New York: median $1,395 across 44 hospitalsNY$1,395Massachusetts: median $2,294 across 13 hospitalsMA$2,294Oregon: median $329 across 20 hospitalsOR$329Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $459 across 23 hospitalsIA$459Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,368 across 25 hospitalsOH$1,368Pennsylvania: median $1,483 across 24 hospitalsPA$1,483New Jersey: median $4,116 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,116Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,528 across 72 hospitalsCA$2,528Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $609 across 11 hospitalsNE$609Missouri: median $867 across 22 hospitalsMO$867Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,147 across 17 hospitalsWV$1,147Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $3,032 across 17 hospitalsNC$3,032South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $303 across 15 hospitalsOK$303Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,444 across 26 hospitalsTX$1,444Florida: median $3,757 across 19 hospitalsFL$3,757
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,147. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$4,116+259%$1,306 – $5,110
Florida FL19$3,757+228%$1,432 – $11,200
North Carolina NC17$3,032+164%$1,020 – $3,032
California CA72$2,528+121%$1,032 – $4,206
Massachusetts MA13$2,294+100%$1,194 – $3,537
Idaho ID11$1,854+62%$507 – $3,234
Washington WA22$1,810+58%$378 – $2,687
Pennsylvania PA24$1,483+29%$57 – $2,539
Texas TX26$1,444+26%$1,151 – $1,525
New York NY44$1,395+22%$660 – $4,595
Ohio OH25$1,368+19%$385 – $1,368
West Virginia WV17$1,1470%$1,078 – $1,376
Missouri MO22$867−24%$178 – $6,605
Minnesota MN19$712−38%$496 – $738
Wisconsin WI44$622−46%$242 – $963
Nebraska NE11$609−47%$263 – $685
Iowa IA23$459−60%$250 – $459
Illinois IL29$459−60%$152 – $5,293
Oregon OR20$329−71%$159 – $2,878
Oklahoma OK15$303−74%$303 – $1,366
Michigan MI38$198−83%$154 – $2,624
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,147.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care536$1,368$288 – $4,116
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access136$491$196 – $1,147
Ownership
For-profit50$1,366$198 – $3,757
Government107$732$215 – $3,032
Non-profit530$1,151$242 – $3,537
System affiliation
Part of a system570$1,289$274 – $3,579
Independent119$411$176 – $1,682

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,070
Median cash price$1,147
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

414 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $750 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,101; most fall between $197 and $2,860.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 414 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
$141$242$750$2,412$3,715

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($141 vs $3,715).

Of the 446 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 414 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

689 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 755 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted689
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code755

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 Removal Anal Seton Other Marker.

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 an anal seton or marker (CPT 46030) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-46030-removal-of-an-anal-seton-or-marker