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Procedure price report · Procedures on the urethra

Drainage of an abscess or cyst of a Skene gland

CPT 53060the billing code this page is about

A fluid- or pus-filled swelling in one of the small glands beside the female urethra is opened and drained.

Hospitals typically charge $2,117 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 702 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,963. Most fall between $458 and $3,659 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
702
States
48
Filings dated
Jun 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 702 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
$338$608$2,117$3,312$4,897

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($338 vs $4,897).

How the prices are spread

$236 – $326: 28 hospitals$236$326 – $452: 77 hospitals$452 – $626: 39 hospitals$452$626 – $867: 37 hospitals$867 – $1,201: 44 hospitals$867$1,201 – $1,663: 28 hospitals$1,663 – $2,302: 106 hospitals$1,663$2,302 – $3,189: 120 hospitals$3,189 – $4,416: 98 hospitals$3,189$4,416 – $6,115: 72 hospitals$4,416median $2,117price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (649 of 702 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$236$32628
$326$45277
$452$62639
$626$86737
$867$1,20144
$1,201$1,66328
$1,663$2,302106
$2,302$3,189120
$3,189$4,41698
$4,416$6,11572

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,117
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.99×

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 $2,117.

Alaska: 6 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: median $3,623 across 22 hospitalsWA$3,623Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $374 across 10 hospitalsMN$374Illinois: median $2,504 across 32 hospitalsIL$2,504Wisconsin: median $904 across 31 hospitalsWI$904Michigan: median $338 across 29 hospitalsMI$338New York: median $2,424 across 34 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $608 across 24 hospitalsOR$608Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $463 across 18 hospitalsIA$463Indiana: median $1,090 across 21 hospitalsIN$1,090Ohio: median $627 across 23 hospitalsOH$627Pennsylvania: median $2,443 across 36 hospitalsPA$2,443New Jersey: median $3,986 across 24 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,481 across 64 hospitalsCA$2,481Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,111 across 15 hospitalsMO$2,111Kentucky: median $1,844 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,844West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $2,117 across 25 hospitalsVA$2,117Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,897 across 10 hospitalsAZ$4,897New Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $877 across 18 hospitalsTN$877North Carolina: median $3,659 across 18 hospitalsNC$3,659South Carolina: median $2,925 across 26 hospitalsSC$2,925Oklahoma: median $397 across 14 hospitalsOK$397Louisiana: median $1,685 across 12 hospitalsLA$1,685Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,459 across 13 hospitalsGA$2,459Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,167 across 46 hospitalsTX$2,167Florida: median $3,244 across 15 hospitalsFL$3,244
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,117. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ10$4,897+131%$2,565 – $4,897
New Jersey NJ24$3,986+88%$2,267 – $5,741
North Carolina NC18$3,659+73%$1,525 – $3,659
Washington WA22$3,623+71%$893 – $4,603
Florida FL15$3,244+53%$2,056 – $3,244
South Carolina SC26$2,925+38%$2,883 – $3,687
Illinois IL32$2,504+18%$416 – $3,805
California CA64$2,481+17%$1,992 – $6,115
Georgia GA13$2,459+16%$2,459 – $3,616
Pennsylvania PA36$2,443+15%$244 – $2,832
New York NY34$2,424+15%$514 – $2,609
Texas TX46$2,167+2%$1,780 – $2,473
Virginia VA25$2,1170%$877 – $2,767
Missouri MO15$2,1110%$287 – $2,960
Kentucky KY10$1,844−13%$368 – $2,370
Louisiana LA12$1,685−20%$758 – $2,322
Indiana IN21$1,090−49%$368 – $1,550
Wisconsin WI31$904−57%$845 – $2,366
Tennessee TN18$877−59%$208 – $877
Ohio OH23$627−70%$627 – $1,802
Oregon OR24$608−71%$349 – $5,527
Iowa IA18$463−78%$463 – $1,342
Oklahoma OK14$397−81%$397 – $3,352
Minnesota MN10$374−82%$280 – $2,186
Michigan MI29$338−84%$330 – $904
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $2,117.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care577$2,202$488 – $3,805
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access114$861$373 – $2,730
Ownership
For-profit52$2,167$368 – $3,896
Government93$1,717$349 – $3,616
Non-profit557$2,152$476 – $3,805
System affiliation
Part of a system606$2,167$506 – $3,739
Independent96$1,331$341 – $2,884

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,753
Median cash price$2,117
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

532 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,100 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,913; most fall between $463 and $3,541.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 532 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
$341$524$2,100$3,244$4,897

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($341 vs $4,897).

Of the 568 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 532 gave a usable cash price; 23 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

702 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 767 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted702
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code767

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Procedures on the urethra family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Drg of Skene's Gland Abscess or Cyst.

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 or cyst of a Skene gland (CPT 53060) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-53060-drainage-of-an-abscess-or-cyst-of-a-skene-gland