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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Draining an abscess or blood pocket in the scrotum

CPT 54700the billing code this page is about

A cut is made to drain infected fluid or blood from the testicle, epididymis, or the space inside the scrotum.

Hospitals typically charge $2,366 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,769 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,391. Most fall between $558 and $4,533 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,769
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,769 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
$366$749$2,366$4,117$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($366 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$265 – $372: 100 hospitals$265$372 – $523: 137 hospitals$523 – $734: 113 hospitals$523$734 – $1,031: 80 hospitals$1,031 – $1,448: 100 hospitals$1,031$1,448 – $2,034: 178 hospitals$2,034 – $2,858: 237 hospitals$2,034$2,858 – $4,014: 282 hospitals$4,014 – $5,638: 221 hospitals$4,014$5,638 – $7,918: 154 hospitals$5,638median $2,366price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,602 of 1,769 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$265$372100
$372$523137
$523$734113
$734$1,03180
$1,031$1,448100
$1,448$2,034178
$2,034$2,858237
$2,858$4,014282
$4,014$5,638221
$5,638$7,918154

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$2,366
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $2,366.

Alaska: median $1,593 across 10 hospitalsAK$1,593Maine: median $483 across 15 hospitalsME$483Vermont: median $766 across 10 hospitalsVT$766New Hampshire: median $508 across 15 hospitalsNH$508Washington: median $1,692 across 52 hospitalsWA$1,692Idaho: median $3,369 across 15 hospitalsID$3,369Montana: median $485 across 13 hospitalsMT$485North Dakota: median $2,486 across 10 hospitalsND$2,486Minnesota: median $2,134 across 54 hospitalsMN$2,134Illinois: median $1,949 across 80 hospitalsIL$1,949Wisconsin: median $1,649 across 61 hospitalsWI$1,649Michigan: median $1,842 across 61 hospitalsMI$1,842New York: median $2,498 across 82 hospitalsNY$2,498Massachusetts: median $3,039 across 40 hospitalsMA$3,039Oregon: median $815 across 44 hospitalsOR$815Nevada: median $2,002 across 12 hospitalsNV$2,002Wyoming: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,907 across 10 hospitalsSD$4,907Iowa: median $659 across 46 hospitalsIA$659Indiana: median $3,002 across 45 hospitalsIN$3,002Ohio: median $4,080 across 64 hospitalsOH$4,080Pennsylvania: median $2,690 across 79 hospitalsPA$2,690New Jersey: median $2,808 across 44 hospitalsNJ$2,808Connecticut: median $1,230 across 16 hospitalsCT$1,230Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,864 across 103 hospitalsCA$3,864Utah: median $563 across 25 hospitalsUT$563Colorado: median $2,122 across 34 hospitalsCO$2,122Nebraska: median $684 across 33 hospitalsNE$684Missouri: median $1,585 across 33 hospitalsMO$1,585Kentucky: median $1,522 across 29 hospitalsKY$1,522West Virginia: median $2,403 across 27 hospitalsWV$2,403Virginia: median $2,077 across 47 hospitalsVA$2,077Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $720 across 10 hospitalsAZ$720New Mexico: median $1,607 across 14 hospitalsNM$1,607Kansas: median $511 across 32 hospitalsKS$511Arkansas: median $1,192 across 18 hospitalsAR$1,192Tennessee: median $558 across 22 hospitalsTN$558North Carolina: median $1,961 across 42 hospitalsNC$1,961South Carolina: median $3,912 across 40 hospitalsSC$3,912Oklahoma: median $2,530 across 32 hospitalsOK$2,530Louisiana: median $1,849 across 33 hospitalsLA$1,849Mississippi: median $783 across 33 hospitalsMS$783Alabama: median $3,151 across 19 hospitalsAL$3,151Georgia: median $3,152 across 60 hospitalsGA$3,152Hawaii: median $4,891 across 13 hospitalsHI$4,891Texas: median $3,357 across 117 hospitalsTX$3,357Florida: median $5,571 across 57 hospitalsFL$5,571
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,366. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL57$5,571+135%$2,056 – $6,481
South Dakota SD10$4,907+107%$424 – $4,907
Hawaii HI13$4,891+107%$2,850 – $5,877
Ohio OH64$4,080+72%$526 – $6,125
South Carolina SC40$3,912+65%$1,364 – $6,527
California CA103$3,864+63%$2,138 – $7,918
Idaho ID15$3,369+42%$461 – $5,304
Texas TX117$3,357+42%$1,793 – $4,764
Georgia GA60$3,152+33%$1,579 – $4,650
Alabama AL19$3,151+33%$1,264 – $5,601
Massachusetts MA40$3,039+28%$1,312 – $5,406
Indiana IN45$3,002+27%$472 – $4,269
New Jersey NJ44$2,808+19%$2,377 – $6,311
Pennsylvania PA79$2,690+14%$1,238 – $4,610
Oklahoma OK32$2,530+7%$1,314 – $4,406
New York NY82$2,498+6%$659 – $5,092
North Dakota ND10$2,486+5%$407 – $3,321
West Virginia WV27$2,403+2%$233 – $3,339
Minnesota MN54$2,134−10%$517 – $2,726
Colorado CO34$2,122−10%$585 – $3,210
Virginia VA47$2,077−12%$1,289 – $3,401
Nevada NV12$2,002−15%$740 – $3,990
North Carolina NC42$1,961−17%$952 – $2,929
Illinois IL80$1,949−18%$683 – $5,335
Louisiana LA33$1,849−22%$858 – $3,101
Michigan MI61$1,842−22%$271 – $4,095
Washington WA52$1,692−28%$484 – $4,529
Wisconsin WI61$1,649−30%$814 – $2,366
New Mexico NM14$1,607−32%$181 – $3,578
Alaska AK10$1,593−33%$685 – $3,617
Missouri MO33$1,585−33%$355 – $3,637
Kentucky KY29$1,522−36%$433 – $4,198
Connecticut CT16$1,230−48%$826 – $3,290
Arkansas AR18$1,192−50%$480 – $2,533
Oregon OR44$815−66%$394 – $4,362
Mississippi MS33$783−67%$575 – $1,520
Vermont VT10$766−68%$359 – $3,829
Arizona AZ10$720−70%$305 – $1,206
Nebraska NE33$684−71%$431 – $1,920
Iowa IA46$659−72%$455 – $3,748
Utah UT25$563−76%$507 – $3,161
Tennessee TN22$558−76%$271 – $3,075
Kansas KS32$511−78%$351 – $2,981
New Hampshire NH15$508−79%$219 – $1,713
Montana MT13$485−79%$283 – $649
Maine ME15$483−80%$212 – $2,262
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not 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 $2,366.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,332$2,644$1,001 – $5,092
Children’s24$3,292$1,590 – $6,866
Critical access410$716$377 – $2,994
Ownership
For-profit156$3,121$831 – $5,335
Government314$1,579$441 – $3,581
Non-profit1,296$2,443$582 – $4,711
System affiliation
Part of a system1,450$2,523$684 – $4,891
Independent319$1,310$401 – $3,292

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,328
Median cash price$2,366
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

1,309 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,554 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,616; most fall between $700 and $4,538.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,309 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
$395$1,039$2,554$4,205$6,125

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($395 vs $6,125).

Of the 1,406 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,309 gave a usable cash price; 36 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 61 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,769 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (45%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,900 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,769
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,900

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 OR therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as I&D Epididymis Tstis&/Scrotal Space.

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, “Draining an abscess or blood pocket in the scrotum (CPT 54700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-54700-draining-an-abscess-or-blood-pocket-in-the-scrotum