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Procedure price report · Other OR lower GI therapeutic procedures

Drainage of an abscess near the anus or rectum

CPT 46040the billing code this page is about

Cutting into and draining a deep pocket of infection in the tissue beside or around the rectum; billed when done as the only procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,795 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,406 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,965. Most fall between $859 and $3,646 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,406
States
50
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 2,406 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
$602$963$1,795$3,268$5,840

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($602 vs $5,840).

How the prices are spread

$431 – $575: 106 hospitals$431$575 – $766: 159 hospitals$766 – $1,022: 256 hospitals$766$1,022 – $1,363: 287 hospitals$1,363 – $1,818: 285 hospitals$1,363$1,818 – $2,424: 281 hospitals$2,424 – $3,233: 297 hospitals$2,424$3,233 – $4,312: 243 hospitals$4,312 – $5,750: 127 hospitals$4,312$5,750 – $7,669: 125 hospitals$5,750median $1,795price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,166 of 2,406 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$431$575106
$575$766159
$766$1,022256
$1,022$1,363287
$1,363$1,818285
$1,818$2,424281
$2,424$3,233297
$3,233$4,312243
$4,312$5,750127
$5,750$7,669125

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,223
Median cash price$1,795
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.47×

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 $1,795.

Alaska: median $2,713 across 15 hospitalsAK$2,713Maine: median $912 across 22 hospitalsME$912Vermont: median $1,429 across 12 hospitalsVT$1,429New Hampshire: median $664 across 17 hospitalsNH$664Washington: median $1,864 across 68 hospitalsWA$1,864Idaho: median $2,502 across 20 hospitalsID$2,502Montana: median $818 across 22 hospitalsMT$818North Dakota: median $1,717 across 12 hospitalsND$1,717Minnesota: median $1,795 across 76 hospitalsMN$1,795Illinois: median $1,513 across 100 hospitalsIL$1,513Wisconsin: median $1,819 across 82 hospitalsWI$1,819Michigan: median $1,645 across 66 hospitalsMI$1,645New York: median $1,525 across 93 hospitalsNY$1,525Massachusetts: median $2,543 across 45 hospitalsMA$2,543Oregon: median $1,556 across 48 hospitalsOR$1,556Nevada: median $2,171 across 18 hospitalsNV$2,171Wyoming: median $1,142 across 13 hospitalsWY$1,142South Dakota: median $3,153 across 17 hospitalsSD$3,153Iowa: median $1,258 across 70 hospitalsIA$1,258Indiana: median $1,617 across 53 hospitalsIN$1,617Ohio: median $2,080 across 98 hospitalsOH$2,080Pennsylvania: median $2,368 across 107 hospitalsPA$2,368New Jersey: median $1,573 across 52 hospitalsNJ$1,573Connecticut: median $2,305 across 18 hospitalsCT$2,305Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,912 across 136 hospitalsCA$2,912Utah: median $1,765 across 26 hospitalsUT$1,765Colorado: median $1,515 across 46 hospitalsCO$1,515Nebraska: median $1,247 across 50 hospitalsNE$1,247Missouri: median $1,191 across 53 hospitalsMO$1,191Kentucky: median $1,425 across 39 hospitalsKY$1,425West Virginia: median $1,644 across 32 hospitalsWV$1,644Virginia: median $1,463 across 60 hospitalsVA$1,463Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,031 across 27 hospitalsAZ$4,031New Mexico: median $2,620 across 25 hospitalsNM$2,620Kansas: median $1,052 across 55 hospitalsKS$1,052Arkansas: median $1,038 across 26 hospitalsAR$1,038Tennessee: median $1,478 across 45 hospitalsTN$1,478North Carolina: median $1,377 across 58 hospitalsNC$1,377South Carolina: median $3,042 across 42 hospitalsSC$3,042Oklahoma: median $1,237 across 54 hospitalsOK$1,237Louisiana: median $1,558 across 48 hospitalsLA$1,558Mississippi: median $842 across 47 hospitalsMS$842Alabama: median $1,793 across 26 hospitalsAL$1,793Georgia: median $4,207 across 79 hospitalsGA$4,207Hawaii: median $2,815 across 15 hospitalsHI$2,815Texas: median $2,395 across 159 hospitalsTX$2,395Florida: median $3,085 across 96 hospitalsFL$3,085
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,795. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA79$4,207+134%$1,277 – $6,671
Arizona AZ27$4,031+125%$1,064 – $8,449
South Dakota SD17$3,153+76%$1,084 – $3,966
Florida FL96$3,085+72%$2,228 – $7,961
South Carolina SC42$3,042+69%$791 – $5,922
California CA136$2,912+62%$1,148 – $6,474
Hawaii HI15$2,815+57%$2,516 – $4,713
Alaska AK15$2,713+51%$967 – $4,191
New Mexico NM25$2,620+46%$449 – $5,154
Massachusetts MA45$2,543+42%$1,103 – $5,753
Idaho ID20$2,502+39%$884 – $3,234
Texas TX159$2,395+33%$1,125 – $3,705
Pennsylvania PA107$2,368+32%$1,177 – $3,565
Connecticut CT18$2,305+28%$997 – $4,247
Nevada NV18$2,171+21%$1,301 – $6,038
Ohio OH98$2,080+16%$867 – $3,526
Washington WA68$1,864+4%$882 – $3,410
Wisconsin WI82$1,819+1%$931 – $2,562
Minnesota MN76$1,7950%$796 – $2,730
Alabama AL26$1,7930%$1,068 – $4,644
Utah UT26$1,765−2%$507 – $2,155
North Dakota ND12$1,717−4%$840 – $3,025
Michigan MI66$1,645−8%$581 – $3,832
West Virginia WV32$1,644−8%$1,327 – $2,391
Indiana IN53$1,617−10%$825 – $2,462
New Jersey NJ52$1,573−12%$1,305 – $5,741
Louisiana LA48$1,558−13%$963 – $2,422
Oregon OR48$1,556−13%$1,025 – $2,288
New York NY93$1,525−15%$715 – $3,340
Colorado CO46$1,515−16%$1,093 – $3,009
Illinois IL100$1,513−16%$856 – $3,074
Tennessee TN45$1,478−18%$807 – $2,777
Virginia VA60$1,463−19%$783 – $2,799
Vermont VT12$1,429−20%$461 – $4,163
Kentucky KY39$1,425−21%$725 – $4,734
North Carolina NC58$1,377−23%$621 – $2,631
Iowa IA70$1,258−30%$761 – $2,547
Nebraska NE50$1,247−31%$879 – $1,955
Oklahoma OK54$1,237−31%$722 – $2,404
Missouri MO53$1,191−34%$750 – $3,131
Wyoming WY13$1,142−36%$471 – $1,616
Kansas KS55$1,052−41%$623 – $2,026
Arkansas AR26$1,038−42%$770 – $3,318
Maine ME22$912−49%$550 – $1,963
Mississippi MS47$842−53%$676 – $2,405
Montana MT22$818−54%$632 – $1,491
New Hampshire NH17$664−63%$338 – $1,136
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $1,795.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,700$2,105$964 – $4,241
Children’s37$2,996$1,503 – $4,702
Critical access661$1,176$682 – $2,448
Ownership
For-profit242$2,857$1,193 – $6,422
Government461$1,392$727 – $2,918
Non-profit1,695$1,858$867 – $3,617
System affiliation
Part of a system1,928$1,915$892 – $3,908
Independent478$1,310$718 – $2,789

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,289
Median cash price$1,795
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

1,749 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,047 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,127; most fall between $896 and $3,700.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,749 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
$656$1,025$2,047$3,384$5,922

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($656 vs $5,922).

Of the 1,881 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,749 gave a usable cash price; 46 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 86 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,406 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (61%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,589 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,406
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here80
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded8
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded95
Hospitals that filed this code2,589

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 Ischiorectal&/Perirectal Abscess Spx.

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 near the anus or rectum (CPT 46040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-46040-drainage-of-an-abscess-near-the-anus-or-rectum