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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Drainage of an abscess in the scrotal wall

CPT 55100the billing code this page is about

A cut is made in the scrotal wall to drain a pocket of infected fluid.

Hospitals typically charge $1,555 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,026 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,536. Most fall between $492 and $2,961 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,026
States
50
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 2,026 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
$332$600$1,555$2,550$4,347

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($332 vs $4,347).

How the prices are spread

$237 – $326: 84 hospitals$237$326 – $449: 170 hospitals$449 – $619: 165 hospitals$449$619 – $852: 143 hospitals$852 – $1,174: 174 hospitals$852$1,174 – $1,617: 195 hospitals$1,617 – $2,228: 379 hospitals$1,617$2,228 – $3,070: 223 hospitals$3,070 – $4,229: 174 hospitals$3,070$4,229 – $5,826: 117 hospitals$4,229median $1,555price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,824 of 2,026 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$237$32684
$326$449170
$449$619165
$619$852143
$852$1,174174
$1,174$1,617195
$1,617$2,228379
$2,228$3,070223
$3,070$4,229174
$4,229$5,826117

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,687
Median cash price$1,555
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $1,555.

Alaska: median $1,301 across 11 hospitalsAK$1,301Maine: median $777 across 19 hospitalsME$777Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $392 across 17 hospitalsNH$392Washington: median $1,160 across 56 hospitalsWA$1,160Idaho: median $2,665 across 14 hospitalsID$2,665Montana: median $429 across 15 hospitalsMT$429North Dakota: median $1,664 across 11 hospitalsND$1,664Minnesota: median $552 across 68 hospitalsMN$552Illinois: median $1,413 across 91 hospitalsIL$1,413Wisconsin: median $897 across 74 hospitalsWI$897Michigan: median $1,539 across 67 hospitalsMI$1,539New York: median $1,918 across 86 hospitalsNY$1,918Massachusetts: median $1,856 across 44 hospitalsMA$1,856Oregon: median $715 across 44 hospitalsOR$715Nevada: median $1,761 across 13 hospitalsNV$1,761Wyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $634 across 13 hospitalsSD$634Iowa: median $600 across 47 hospitalsIA$600Indiana: median $811 across 45 hospitalsIN$811Ohio: median $1,898 across 74 hospitalsOH$1,898Pennsylvania: median $2,081 across 85 hospitalsPA$2,081New Jersey: median $2,163 across 48 hospitalsNJ$2,163Connecticut: median $1,052 across 19 hospitalsCT$1,052Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,415 across 125 hospitalsCA$2,415Utah: median $410 across 25 hospitalsUT$410Colorado: median $1,657 across 35 hospitalsCO$1,657Nebraska: median $1,012 across 29 hospitalsNE$1,012Missouri: median $1,198 across 46 hospitalsMO$1,198Kentucky: median $1,526 across 34 hospitalsKY$1,526West Virginia: median $1,582 across 30 hospitalsWV$1,582Virginia: median $1,498 across 52 hospitalsVA$1,498Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $2,069 across 18 hospitalsAZ$2,069New Mexico: median $862 across 18 hospitalsNM$862Kansas: median $500 across 37 hospitalsKS$500Arkansas: median $600 across 19 hospitalsAR$600Tennessee: median $552 across 40 hospitalsTN$552North Carolina: median $1,317 across 49 hospitalsNC$1,317South Carolina: median $1,959 across 43 hospitalsSC$1,959Oklahoma: median $1,468 across 43 hospitalsOK$1,468Louisiana: median $954 across 36 hospitalsLA$954Mississippi: median $673 across 41 hospitalsMS$673Alabama: median $1,748 across 19 hospitalsAL$1,748Georgia: median $3,178 across 71 hospitalsGA$3,178Hawaii: median $2,904 across 13 hospitalsHI$2,904Texas: median $1,755 across 139 hospitalsTX$1,755Florida: median $3,096 across 76 hospitalsFL$3,096
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,555. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA71$3,178+104%$886 – $4,741
Florida FL76$3,096+99%$1,414 – $5,571
Hawaii HI13$2,904+87%$277 – $3,246
Idaho ID14$2,665+71%$468 – $4,347
California CA125$2,415+55%$1,564 – $6,306
New Jersey NJ48$2,163+39%$1,793 – $5,741
Pennsylvania PA85$2,081+34%$1,253 – $3,130
Arizona AZ18$2,069+33%$663 – $3,551
South Carolina SC43$1,959+26%$865 – $2,923
New York NY86$1,918+23%$506 – $4,172
Ohio OH74$1,898+22%$644 – $4,844
Massachusetts MA44$1,856+19%$829 – $3,184
Nevada NV13$1,761+13%$510 – $3,006
Texas TX139$1,755+13%$916 – $2,666
Alabama AL19$1,748+12%$960 – $2,608
North Dakota ND11$1,664+7%$840 – $2,091
Colorado CO35$1,657+7%$395 – $2,247
West Virginia WV30$1,582+2%$184 – $2,190
Michigan MI67$1,539−1%$332 – $2,271
Kentucky KY34$1,526−2%$418 – $3,308
Virginia VA52$1,498−4%$625 – $3,442
Oklahoma OK43$1,468−6%$476 – $2,365
Illinois IL91$1,413−9%$600 – $2,254
North Carolina NC49$1,317−15%$1,051 – $2,336
Alaska AK11$1,301−16%$792 – $2,503
Missouri MO46$1,198−23%$562 – $1,920
Washington WA56$1,160−25%$459 – $2,871
Connecticut CT19$1,052−32%$523 – $2,669
Nebraska NE29$1,012−35%$469 – $1,463
Louisiana LA36$954−39%$593 – $2,130
Wisconsin WI74$897−42%$396 – $1,664
New Mexico NM18$862−45%$183 – $1,639
Indiana IN45$811−48%$333 – $1,943
Maine ME19$777−50%$234 – $1,639
Oregon OR44$715−54%$391 – $2,800
Mississippi MS41$673−57%$460 – $1,165
South Dakota SD13$634−59%$477 – $1,914
Iowa IA47$600−61%$330 – $1,840
Arkansas AR19$600−61%$410 – $1,550
Tennessee TN40$552−65%$356 – $1,590
Minnesota MN68$552−65%$380 – $1,724
Kansas KS37$500−68%$352 – $1,924
Montana MT15$429−72%$237 – $683
Utah UT25$410−74%$328 – $2,665
New Hampshire NH17$392−75%$182 – $1,136
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $1,555.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,512$1,799$674 – $3,362
Children’s28$2,148$1,045 – $2,800
Critical access482$631$328 – $1,812
Ownership
For-profit198$1,898$742 – $3,551
Government367$1,002$391 – $2,318
Non-profit1,457$1,664$523 – $2,966
System affiliation
Part of a system1,637$1,722$554 – $3,190
Independent389$981$337 – $2,155

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,628
Median cash price$1,555
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

1,535 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,724 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,709; most fall between $588 and $3,178.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,535 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
$356$818$1,724$2,786$4,484

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($356 vs $4,484).

Of the 1,664 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,535 gave a usable cash price; 52 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 77 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,026 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (51%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,194 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,026
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here79
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded4
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded85
Hospitals that filed this code2,194

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 July 20, 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 therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Drainage Scrotal Wall Abscess.

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 in the scrotal wall (CPT 55100) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55100-drainage-of-an-abscess-in-the-scrotal-wall