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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Anoscopy to remove a foreign object

CPT 46608the billing code this page is about

Examination of the anal canal with a scope and removal of an object lodged there.

Hospitals typically charge $883 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,158 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,015. Most fall between $361 and $2,022 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,158
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,158 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
$197$421$883$1,735$2,742

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($197 vs $2,742).

How the prices are spread

$131 – $184: 35 hospitals$131$184 – $258: 78 hospitals$258 – $362: 64 hospitals$258$362 – $509: 126 hospitals$509 – $714: 124 hospitals$509$714 – $1,003: 133 hospitals$1,003 – $1,409: 165 hospitals$1,003$1,409 – $1,979: 133 hospitals$1,979 – $2,779: 128 hospitals$1,979$2,779 – $3,902: 59 hospitals$2,779median $883price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,045 of 1,158 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$131$18435
$184$25878
$258$36264
$362$509126
$509$714124
$714$1,003133
$1,003$1,409165
$1,409$1,979133
$1,979$2,779128
$2,779$3,90259

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$950
Median cash price$883
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.93×

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 $883.

Alaska: median $1,592 across 10 hospitalsAK$1,592Maine: median $436 across 13 hospitalsME$436Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $206 across 11 hospitalsNH$206Washington: median $676 across 43 hospitalsWA$676Idaho: median $2,509 across 11 hospitalsID$2,509Montana: median $291 across 10 hospitalsMT$291North Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $564 across 21 hospitalsMN$564Illinois: median $340 across 38 hospitalsIL$340Wisconsin: median $511 across 38 hospitalsWI$511Michigan: median $271 across 30 hospitalsMI$271New York: median $1,079 across 53 hospitalsNY$1,079Massachusetts: median $1,427 across 21 hospitalsMA$1,427Oregon: median $739 across 35 hospitalsOR$739Nevada: median $1,011 across 11 hospitalsNV$1,011Wyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $845 across 12 hospitalsSD$845Iowa: median $681 across 31 hospitalsIA$681Indiana: median $486 across 23 hospitalsIN$486Ohio: median $1,317 across 40 hospitalsOH$1,317Pennsylvania: median $1,223 across 40 hospitalsPA$1,223New Jersey: median $2,604 across 34 hospitalsNJ$2,604Connecticut: 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 $1,625 across 89 hospitalsCA$1,625Utah: median $441 across 25 hospitalsUT$441Colorado: median $608 across 24 hospitalsCO$608Nebraska: median $660 across 23 hospitalsNE$660Missouri: median $807 across 29 hospitalsMO$807Kentucky: median $3,902 across 13 hospitalsKY$3,902West Virginia: median $152 across 14 hospitalsWV$152Virginia: median $1,131 across 26 hospitalsVA$1,131Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $1,327 across 13 hospitalsAZ$1,327New Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $470 across 15 hospitalsKS$470Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $477 across 12 hospitalsTN$477North Carolina: median $566 across 24 hospitalsNC$566South Carolina: median $1,742 across 17 hospitalsSC$1,742Oklahoma: median $317 across 26 hospitalsOK$317Louisiana: median $768 across 21 hospitalsLA$768Mississippi: median $526 across 23 hospitalsMS$526Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $608 across 41 hospitalsGA$608Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $961 across 97 hospitalsTX$961Florida: median $1,752 across 36 hospitalsFL$1,752
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $883. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Kentucky KY13$3,902+342%$295 – $3,902
New Jersey NJ34$2,604+195%$1,009 – $5,562
Idaho ID11$2,509+184%$1,166 – $2,509
Florida FL36$1,752+98%$1,261 – $3,408
South Carolina SC17$1,742+97%$901 – $3,790
California CA89$1,625+84%$1,039 – $3,998
Alaska AK10$1,592+80%$142 – $1,864
Massachusetts MA21$1,427+62%$718 – $2,579
Arizona AZ13$1,327+50%$259 – $1,327
Ohio OH40$1,317+49%$233 – $2,726
Pennsylvania PA40$1,223+38%$62 – $2,551
Virginia VA26$1,131+28%$763 – $1,520
New York NY53$1,079+22%$255 – $2,443
Nevada NV11$1,011+14%$356 – $2,108
Texas TX97$961+9%$720 – $2,022
South Dakota SD12$845−4%$497 – $1,430
Missouri MO29$807−9%$317 – $1,913
Louisiana LA21$768−13%$361 – $1,067
Oregon OR35$739−16%$246 – $1,760
Iowa IA31$681−23%$408 – $1,489
Washington WA43$676−23%$362 – $1,951
Nebraska NE23$660−25%$371 – $1,097
Georgia GA41$608−31%$409 – $1,055
Colorado CO24$608−31%$529 – $1,272
North Carolina NC24$566−36%$409 – $1,435
Minnesota MN21$564−36%$355 – $829
Mississippi MS23$526−40%$279 – $1,028
Wisconsin WI38$511−42%$446 – $1,472
Indiana IN23$486−45%$420 – $979
Tennessee TN12$477−46%$209 – $583
Kansas KS15$470−47%$178 – $876
Utah UT25$441−50%$363 – $466
Maine ME13$436−51%$119 – $917
Illinois IL38$340−61%$210 – $1,185
Oklahoma OK26$317−64%$180 – $538
Montana MT10$291−67%$98 – $499
Michigan MI30$271−69%$188 – $739
New Hampshire NH11$206−77%$82 – $925
West Virginia WV14$152−83%$91 – $1,792
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not 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 $883.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care880$1,051$409 – $2,041
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access258$529$211 – $1,391
Ownership
For-profit109$1,190$522 – $2,371
Government197$701$283 – $1,595
Non-profit849$876$363 – $2,022
System affiliation
Part of a system955$961$409 – $2,022
Independent203$592$190 – $1,428

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,704
Median cash price$883
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

842 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $910 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,066; most fall between $421 and $2,022.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 842 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
$224$466$910$1,916$2,798

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($224 vs $2,798).

Of the 917 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 842 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 45 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,158 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,259 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,158
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded53
Hospitals that filed this code1,259

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 Nonoperative removal of foreign body family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Anoscopy,Remove Foreign Body.

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, “Anoscopy to remove a foreign object (CPT 46608) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-46608-anoscopy-to-remove-a-foreign-object