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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Removal of a tumor near the tailbone

CPT 49215the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove a tumor located in front of the sacrum or at the tailbone.

Hospitals typically charge $4,115 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 216 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,128. Most fall between $2,996 and $9,892 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
216
States
41
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 216 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
$2,083$3,159$4,115$8,246$12,022

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,083 vs $12,022).

How the prices are spread

$1,425 – $1,821: 6 hospitals$1,425$1,821 – $2,328: 16 hospitals$2,328 – $2,976: 9 hospitals$2,328$2,976 – $3,804: 56 hospitals$3,804 – $4,863: 18 hospitals$3,804$4,863 – $6,217: 32 hospitals$6,217 – $7,947: 15 hospitals$6,217$7,947 – $10,159: 19 hospitals$10,159 – $12,987: 17 hospitals$10,159$12,987 – $16,601: 10 hospitals$12,987median $4,115price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (198 of 216 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,425$1,8216
$1,821$2,32816
$2,328$2,9769
$2,976$3,80456
$3,804$4,86318
$4,863$6,21732
$6,217$7,94715
$7,947$10,15919
$10,159$12,98717
$12,987$16,60110

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $4,115.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $3,107 across 10 hospitalsIL$3,107Wisconsin: median $12,022 across 19 hospitalsWI$12,022Michigan: median $3,803 across 25 hospitalsMI$3,803New York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $5,465 across 14 hospitalsIA$5,465Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $8,246 across 13 hospitalsOH$8,246Pennsylvania: median $1,610 across 16 hospitalsPA$1,610New Jersey: median $4,881 across 20 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $3,651 across 10 hospitalsOK$3,651Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,115. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI19$12,022+192%$12,022 – $16,601
Ohio OH13$8,246+100%$2,643 – $9,831
Iowa IA14$5,465+33%$5,465 – $5,465
New Jersey NJ20$4,881+19%$3,159 – $5,855
Michigan MI25$3,803−8%$2,996 – $3,803
Oklahoma OK10$3,651−11%$3,651 – $3,651
Illinois IL10$3,107−25%$2,083 – $4,542
Pennsylvania PA16$1,610−61%$1,363 – $6,103
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $4,115.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care176$4,115$3,096 – $8,848
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access31$4,516$2,383 – $12,022
Ownership
For-profit18fewer than 20 hospitals
Government27$5,682$3,593 – $9,892
Non-profit169$4,035$2,996 – $9,831
System affiliation
Part of a system173$4,350$3,090 – $9,892
Independent43$4,115$2,643 – $8,246

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,717
Median cash price$4,115
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

140 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,138 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,872; most fall between $2,408 and $9,611.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 140 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
$2,083$3,144$4,138$7,506$12,022

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($2,083 vs $12,022).

Of the 155 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 140 gave a usable cash price; 9 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

216 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 246 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted216
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code246

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Presac/Sacrococcygeal Tumor.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Removal of a tumor near the tailbone (CPT 49215) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49215-removal-of-a-tumor-near-the-tailbone