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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Drainage of a deep abscess or infection in the penis

CPT 54015the billing code this page is about

The penis is cut into to drain pus or infected fluid from deep tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $1,645 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 460 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,788. Most fall between $605 and $3,750 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
460
States
43
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 460 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
$439$762$1,645$3,323$5,571

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($439 vs $5,571).

How the prices are spread

$317 – $432: 25 hospitals$317$432 – $588: 46 hospitals$588 – $801: 40 hospitals$588$801 – $1,090: 33 hospitals$1,090 – $1,483: 46 hospitals$1,090$1,483 – $2,019: 71 hospitals$2,019 – $2,749: 32 hospitals$2,019$2,749 – $3,742: 53 hospitals$3,742 – $5,093: 40 hospitals$3,742$5,093 – $6,933: 41 hospitals$5,093median $1,645price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (427 of 460 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$317$43225
$432$58846
$588$80140
$801$1,09033
$1,090$1,48346
$1,483$2,01971
$2,019$2,74932
$2,749$3,74253
$3,742$5,09340
$5,093$6,93341

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,645
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.98×

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 $1,645.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,624 across 14 hospitalsWA$2,624Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $516 across 11 hospitalsIL$516Wisconsin: median $1,220 across 27 hospitalsWI$1,220Michigan: median $631 across 17 hospitalsMI$631New York: median $1,917 across 33 hospitalsNY$1,917Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,008 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,008Nevada: 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 $772 across 15 hospitalsIA$772Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $470 across 19 hospitalsPA$470New Jersey: median $3,986 across 26 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,323 across 60 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,515 across 10 hospitalsMO$1,515Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,388 across 11 hospitalsVA$1,388Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $1,645 across 13 hospitalsNC$1,645South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $505 across 16 hospitalsOK$505Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,994 across 36 hospitalsTX$1,994Florida: median $2,750 across 21 hospitalsFL$2,750
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,645. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ26$3,986+142%$1,793 – $5,855
California CA60$3,323+102%$1,360 – $6,933
Florida FL21$2,750+67%$2,750 – $5,571
Washington WA14$2,624+59%$580 – $3,550
Texas TX36$1,994+21%$1,611 – $4,259
New York NY33$1,917+17%$870 – $3,420
North Carolina NC13$1,6450%$1,645 – $1,645
Missouri MO10$1,515−8%$496 – $2,651
Virginia VA11$1,388−16%$837 – $1,477
Wisconsin WI27$1,220−26%$1,165 – $2,857
Oregon OR16$1,008−39%$556 – $7,034
Iowa IA15$772−53%$772 – $772
Michigan MI17$631−62%$439 – $2,271
Illinois IL11$516−69%$403 – $734
Oklahoma OK16$505−69%$505 – $505
Pennsylvania PA19$470−71%$188 – $2,739
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $1,645.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care385$1,703$631 – $4,172
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access66$1,165$574 – $2,857
Ownership
For-profit42$1,611$558 – $4,347
Government65$1,409$538 – $1,917
Non-profit352$1,734$631 – $3,986
System affiliation
Part of a system396$1,734$645 – $4,126
Independent64$859$540 – $2,383

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,180
Median cash price$1,645
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

339 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,595 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,748; most fall between $556 and $3,986.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 339 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
$403$631$1,595$3,323$5,571

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($403 vs $5,571).

Of the 360 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 339 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 5 a list price only.

How complete is this

460 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 501 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted460
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code501

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 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 therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as I&D Penis Deep.

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, “Drainage of a deep abscess or infection in the penis (CPT 54015) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54015-drainage-of-a-deep-abscess-or-infection-in-the-penis