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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, female organs

Surgical drainage of a Bartholin gland cyst

CPT 56440the billing code this page is about

Procedure that opens a fluid-filled cyst of a Bartholin gland near the vaginal opening and stitches the edges open so it drains rather than refilling.

Hospitals typically charge $2,790 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,093 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,615. Most fall between $420 and $5,991 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,093
States
50
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 1,093 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
$318$504$2,790$5,331$8,936

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($318 vs $8,936).

How the prices are spread

$225 – $329: 66 hospitals$225$329 – $482: 144 hospitals$482 – $704: 80 hospitals$482$704 – $1,031: 64 hospitals$1,031 – $1,508: 51 hospitals$1,031$1,508 – $2,206: 42 hospitals$2,206 – $3,227: 112 hospitals$2,206$3,227 – $4,721: 185 hospitals$4,721 – $6,906: 127 hospitals$4,721$6,906 – $10,103: 115 hospitals$6,906median $2,790price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (986 of 1,093 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$225$32966
$329$482144
$482$70480
$704$1,03164
$1,031$1,50851
$1,508$2,20642
$2,206$3,227112
$3,227$4,721185
$4,721$6,906127
$6,906$10,103115

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,307
Median cash price$2,790
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $2,790.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $228 across 10 hospitalsNH$228Washington: median $3,248 across 49 hospitalsWA$3,248Idaho: median $6,393 across 11 hospitalsID$6,393Montana: median $550 across 10 hospitalsMT$550North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,076 across 32 hospitalsMN$1,076Illinois: median $884 across 35 hospitalsIL$884Wisconsin: median $992 across 33 hospitalsWI$992Michigan: median $992 across 39 hospitalsMI$992New York: median $3,763 across 77 hospitalsNY$3,763Massachusetts: median $3,768 across 19 hospitalsMA$3,768Oregon: median $603 across 34 hospitalsOR$603Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $4,177 across 11 hospitalsSD$4,177Iowa: median $452 across 34 hospitalsIA$452Indiana: median $874 across 22 hospitalsIN$874Ohio: median $9,507 across 31 hospitalsOH$9,507Pennsylvania: median $3,916 across 31 hospitalsPA$3,916New Jersey: median $4,243 across 35 hospitalsNJ$4,243Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,623 across 89 hospitalsCA$4,623Utah: median $369 across 25 hospitalsUT$369Colorado: median $2,329 across 16 hospitalsCO$2,329Nebraska: median $445 across 18 hospitalsNE$445Missouri: median $2,663 across 27 hospitalsMO$2,663Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $526 across 19 hospitalsWV$526Virginia: median $5,363 across 20 hospitalsVA$5,363Maryland: 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 $6,143 across 15 hospitalsAZ$6,143New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $425 across 16 hospitalsKS$425Arkansas: median $2,701 across 15 hospitalsAR$2,701Tennessee: median $1,140 across 19 hospitalsTN$1,140North Carolina: median $2,847 across 13 hospitalsNC$2,847South Carolina: median $5,339 across 16 hospitalsSC$5,339Oklahoma: median $471 across 27 hospitalsOK$471Louisiana: median $1,954 across 21 hospitalsLA$1,954Mississippi: median $1,065 across 17 hospitalsMS$1,065Alabama: median $3,561 across 14 hospitalsAL$3,561Georgia: median $3,417 across 14 hospitalsGA$3,417Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,946 across 62 hospitalsTX$2,946Florida: median $3,665 across 43 hospitalsFL$3,665
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,790. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH31$9,507+241%$751 – $9,507
Idaho ID11$6,393+129%$2,548 – $8,592
Arizona AZ15$6,143+120%$2,100 – $6,143
Virginia VA20$5,363+92%$1,506 – $7,865
South Carolina SC16$5,339+91%$4,210 – $7,904
California CA89$4,623+66%$2,099 – $10,002
New Jersey NJ35$4,243+52%$3,522 – $5,419
South Dakota SD11$4,177+50%$1,913 – $7,078
Pennsylvania PA31$3,916+40%$244 – $6,504
Massachusetts MA19$3,768+35%$1,854 – $5,343
New York NY77$3,763+35%$536 – $6,784
Florida FL43$3,665+31%$2,790 – $5,571
Alabama AL14$3,561+28%$2,224 – $7,594
Georgia GA14$3,417+22%$2,271 – $5,810
Washington WA49$3,248+16%$416 – $6,280
Texas TX62$2,946+6%$2,223 – $4,479
North Carolina NC13$2,847+2%$524 – $7,807
Arkansas AR15$2,701−3%$437 – $3,504
Missouri MO27$2,663−5%$286 – $4,418
Colorado CO16$2,329−17%$296 – $8,241
Louisiana LA21$1,954−30%$1,132 – $4,342
Tennessee TN19$1,140−59%$203 – $6,395
Minnesota MN32$1,076−61%$442 – $2,288
Mississippi MS17$1,065−62%$579 – $4,016
Michigan MI39$992−64%$405 – $6,484
Wisconsin WI33$992−64%$681 – $2,099
Illinois IL35$884−68%$363 – $7,578
Indiana IN22$874−69%$363 – $5,135
Oregon OR34$603−78%$334 – $7,799
Montana MT10$550−80%$244 – $802
West Virginia WV19$526−81%$188 – $5,253
Oklahoma OK27$471−83%$382 – $3,338
Iowa IA34$452−84%$391 – $722
Nebraska NE18$445−84%$273 – $1,222
Kansas KS16$425−85%$350 – $1,553
Utah UT25$369−87%$369 – $410
New Hampshire NH10$228−92%$182 – $472
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,790.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care834$3,469$520 – $6,525
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access243$589$323 – $1,968
Ownership
For-profit95$4,141$584 – $7,121
Government194$1,479$392 – $4,016
Non-profit802$2,798$420 – $6,143
System affiliation
Part of a system884$2,993$452 – $6,280
Independent209$847$350 – $4,016

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,110
Median cash price$2,790
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

644 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,476 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,448; most fall between $382 and $5,810.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 644 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
$299$440$2,476$5,339$8,241

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($299 vs $8,241).

Of the 712 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 644 gave a usable cash price; 31 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 37 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,093 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (28%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,204 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,093
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded33
Hospitals that filed this code1,204

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 Marsupialization Bartholins Gland 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, “Surgical drainage of a Bartholin gland cyst (CPT 56440) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-56440-surgical-drainage-of-a-bartholin-gland-cyst