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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, female organs

Draining a Bartholin gland abscess

CPT 56420the billing code this page is about

A small cut is made to open and drain an infected, pus-filled Bartholin gland at the opening of the vagina.

Hospitals typically charge $334 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,503 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $360. Most fall between $186 and $645 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,503
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 2,503 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
$131$206$334$567$981

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $981).

How the prices are spread

$93 – $124: 103 hospitals$93$124 – $166: 157 hospitals$166 – $222: 323 hospitals$166$222 – $297: 388 hospitals$297 – $397: 359 hospitals$297$397 – $530: 349 hospitals$530 – $709: 268 hospitals$530$709 – $949: 171 hospitals$949 – $1,268: 90 hospitals$949$1,268 – $1,696: 45 hospitals$1,268median $334price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,253 of 2,503 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$93$124103
$124$166157
$166$222323
$222$297388
$297$397359
$397$530349
$530$709268
$709$949171
$949$1,26890
$1,268$1,69645

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$207
Median cash price$334
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.62×

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 $334.

Alaska: median $663 across 15 hospitalsAK$663Maine: median $199 across 22 hospitalsME$199Vermont: median $301 across 12 hospitalsVT$301New Hampshire: median $205 across 18 hospitalsNH$205Washington: median $336 across 66 hospitalsWA$336Idaho: median $298 across 20 hospitalsID$298Montana: median $236 across 25 hospitalsMT$236North Dakota: median $351 across 19 hospitalsND$351Minnesota: median $293 across 71 hospitalsMN$293Illinois: median $371 across 113 hospitalsIL$371Wisconsin: median $384 across 79 hospitalsWI$384Michigan: median $278 across 72 hospitalsMI$278New York: median $266 across 98 hospitalsNY$266Massachusetts: median $596 across 42 hospitalsMA$596Oregon: median $336 across 49 hospitalsOR$336Nevada: median $296 across 15 hospitalsNV$296Wyoming: median $318 across 12 hospitalsWY$318South Dakota: median $392 across 18 hospitalsSD$392Iowa: median $233 across 68 hospitalsIA$233Indiana: median $352 across 56 hospitalsIN$352Ohio: median $375 across 116 hospitalsOH$375Pennsylvania: median $379 across 108 hospitalsPA$379New Jersey: median $268 across 53 hospitalsNJ$268Connecticut: median $415 across 18 hospitalsCT$415Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $550 across 142 hospitalsCA$550Utah: median $362 across 27 hospitalsUT$362Colorado: median $447 across 44 hospitalsCO$447Nebraska: median $274 across 46 hospitalsNE$274Missouri: median $312 across 55 hospitalsMO$312Kentucky: median $331 across 47 hospitalsKY$331West Virginia: median $246 across 38 hospitalsWV$246Virginia: median $549 across 55 hospitalsVA$549Maryland: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,186 across 27 hospitalsAZ$1,186New Mexico: median $292 across 25 hospitalsNM$292Kansas: median $219 across 53 hospitalsKS$219Arkansas: median $353 across 28 hospitalsAR$353Tennessee: median $222 across 51 hospitalsTN$222North Carolina: median $302 across 55 hospitalsNC$302South Carolina: median $519 across 44 hospitalsSC$519Oklahoma: median $211 across 61 hospitalsOK$211Louisiana: median $225 across 49 hospitalsLA$225Mississippi: median $159 across 52 hospitalsMS$159Alabama: median $273 across 28 hospitalsAL$273Georgia: median $319 across 86 hospitalsGA$319Hawaii: median $481 across 16 hospitalsHI$481Texas: median $358 across 167 hospitalsTX$358Florida: median $538 across 103 hospitalsFL$538
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $334. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ27$1,186+255%$450 – $1,577
Alaska AK15$663+99%$230 – $935
Massachusetts MA42$596+78%$297 – $1,852
California CA142$550+65%$289 – $1,142
Virginia VA55$549+64%$222 – $825
Florida FL103$538+61%$176 – $1,800
South Carolina SC44$519+55%$200 – $1,929
Hawaii HI16$481+44%$263 – $761
Colorado CO44$447+34%$266 – $645
Connecticut CT18$415+24%$236 – $600
South Dakota SD18$392+17%$285 – $474
Wisconsin WI79$384+15%$234 – $628
Pennsylvania PA108$379+14%$171 – $1,475
Ohio OH116$375+12%$192 – $787
Illinois IL113$371+11%$178 – $580
Utah UT27$362+9%$328 – $489
Texas TX167$358+7%$202 – $745
Arkansas AR28$353+6%$144 – $501
Indiana IN56$352+5%$239 – $564
North Dakota ND19$351+5%$199 – $438
Oregon OR49$336+1%$200 – $492
Washington WA66$336+1%$238 – $556
Kentucky KY47$331−1%$215 – $482
Georgia GA86$319−5%$171 – $800
Wyoming WY12$318−5%$254 – $410
Missouri MO55$312−7%$180 – $608
North Carolina NC55$302−9%$169 – $411
Vermont VT12$301−10%$165 – $495
Idaho ID20$298−11%$165 – $562
Nevada NV15$296−11%$191 – $647
Minnesota MN71$293−12%$191 – $438
New Mexico NM25$292−13%$186 – $566
Michigan MI72$278−17%$134 – $586
Nebraska NE46$274−18%$192 – $438
Alabama AL28$273−18%$174 – $825
New Jersey NJ53$268−20%$223 – $3,986
New York NY98$266−20%$173 – $509
West Virginia WV38$246−26%$198 – $549
Montana MT25$236−29%$158 – $382
Iowa IA68$233−30%$169 – $432
Louisiana LA49$225−33%$127 – $395
Tennessee TN51$222−33%$171 – $362
Kansas KS53$219−34%$148 – $291
Oklahoma OK61$211−37%$127 – $446
New Hampshire NH18$205−39%$98 – $261
Maine ME22$199−40%$132 – $353
Mississippi MS52$159−52%$97 – $272
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not 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 $334.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,761$356$192 – $757
Children’s36$536$261 – $1,001
Critical access700$297$175 – $469
Ownership
For-profit274$479$228 – $1,089
Government486$264$164 – $451
Non-profit1,737$348$190 – $635
System affiliation
Part of a system1,994$355$193 – $690
Independent509$273$163 – $478

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$553
Median cash price$334
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

1,861 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $359 and the average of the middle 60% is $383; most fall between $192 and $664.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,861 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
$140$215$359$600$937

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($140 vs $937).

Of the 1,995 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,861 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 82 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,503 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,685 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,503
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here84
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded91
Hospitals that filed this code2,685

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, female organs family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as I&D of Bartholins Gland 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, “Draining a Bartholin gland abscess (CPT 56420) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-56420-draining-a-bartholin-gland-abscess