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Freezing treatment of small anal growths such as warts

CPT 46916the billing code this page is about

Treatment that freezes a limited number of growths, such as warts, on or around the anus to destroy them.

Hospitals typically charge $355 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 595 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $385. Most fall between $223 and $606 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
595
States
49
Filings dated
Feb 2024 – 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 595 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
$152$235$355$582$959

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($152 vs $959).

How the prices are spread

$108 – $138: 18 hospitals$108$138 – $177: 33 hospitals$177 – $226: 47 hospitals$177$226 – $288: 90 hospitals$288 – $369: 91 hospitals$288$369 – $471: 87 hospitals$471 – $603: 71 hospitals$471$603 – $770: 53 hospitals$770 – $985: 18 hospitals$770$985 – $1,259: 29 hospitals$985median $355price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (537 of 595 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$108$13818
$138$17733
$177$22647
$226$28890
$288$36991
$369$47187
$471$60371
$603$77053
$770$98518
$985$1,25929

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$355
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.73×

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 $355.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $552 across 22 hospitalsMN$552Illinois: median $273 across 22 hospitalsIL$273Wisconsin: median $402 across 44 hospitalsWI$402Michigan: median $257 across 31 hospitalsMI$257New York: median $236 across 34 hospitalsNY$236Massachusetts: median $561 across 12 hospitalsMA$561Oregon: median $471 across 18 hospitalsOR$471Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $498 across 27 hospitalsIA$498Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $421 across 11 hospitalsOH$421Pennsylvania: median $228 across 30 hospitalsPA$228New Jersey: median $267 across 28 hospitalsNJ$267Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $582 across 51 hospitalsCA$582Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $518 across 10 hospitalsCO$518Nebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $223 across 13 hospitalsMO$223Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $365 across 18 hospitalsVA$365Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 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: median $318 across 14 hospitalsNC$318South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $234 across 13 hospitalsOK$234Louisiana: median $143 across 15 hospitalsLA$143Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $355 across 18 hospitalsGA$355Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $329 across 23 hospitalsTX$329Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $355. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA51$582+64%$408 – $582
Massachusetts MA12$561+58%$389 – $712
Minnesota MN22$552+55%$257 – $725
Colorado CO10$518+46%$149 – $526
Iowa IA27$498+40%$256 – $606
Oregon OR18$471+33%$446 – $1,037
Ohio OH11$421+19%$225 – $594
Wisconsin WI44$402+13%$347 – $1,095
Virginia VA18$365+3%$108 – $419
Georgia GA18$3550%$355 – $604
Texas TX23$329−7%$305 – $435
North Carolina NC14$318−10%$317 – $318
Illinois IL22$273−23%$220 – $504
New Jersey NJ28$267−25%$220 – $5,339
Michigan MI31$257−28%$189 – $452
New York NY34$236−34%$235 – $791
Oklahoma OK13$234−34%$234 – $338
Pennsylvania PA30$228−36%$92 – $375
Missouri MO13$223−37%$152 – $320
Louisiana LA15$143−60%$88 – $385
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $355.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care463$347$220 – $604
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access120$402$284 – $637
Ownership
For-profit32$330$220 – $651
Government108$318$199 – $496
Non-profit454$371$224 – $632
System affiliation
Part of a system487$355$223 – $606
Independent108$385$199 – $601

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$566
Median cash price$355
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

377 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $372 and the average of the middle 60% is $386; most fall between $220 and $604.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 377 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
$149$234$372$582$959

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($149 vs $959).

Of the 408 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 377 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

595 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 648 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted595
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code648

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 non-OR lower GI therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Dstrj Lesion Anus Simple Cryosurgery.

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, “Freezing treatment of small anal growths such as warts (CPT 46916) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-46916-freezing-treatment-of-small-anal-growths-such-as-warts