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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures, female organs

Draining fluid from behind the vagina with a needle

CPT 57020the billing code this page is about

A needle is passed through the vaginal wall to drain fluid collected in the space behind the uterus, usually done in an office or clinic setting.

Hospitals typically charge $1,444 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 489 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,227. Most fall between $220 and $5,842 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
489
States
47
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 489 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
$141$240$1,444$5,110$8,288

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 59× what the cheapest tenth charges ($141 vs $8,288).

How the prices are spread

$128 – $198: 65 hospitals$128$198 – $307: 60 hospitals$307 – $475: 27 hospitals$307$475 – $735: 31 hospitals$735 – $1,136: 26 hospitals$735$1,136 – $1,758: 27 hospitals$1,758 – $2,719: 17 hospitals$1,758$2,719 – $4,206: 56 hospitals$4,206 – $6,506: 81 hospitals$4,206$6,506 – $10,064: 51 hospitals$6,506median $1,444price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (441 of 489 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$128$19865
$198$30760
$307$47527
$475$73531
$735$1,13626
$1,136$1,75827
$1,758$2,71917
$2,719$4,20656
$4,206$6,50681
$6,506$10,06451

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,111
Median cash price$1,444
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.28×

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 $1,444.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $5,669 across 20 hospitalsWA$5,669Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $205 across 17 hospitalsIL$205Wisconsin: median $553 across 21 hospitalsWI$553Michigan: median $339 across 16 hospitalsMI$339New York: median $5,842 across 26 hospitalsNY$5,842Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $301 across 26 hospitalsOR$301Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $272 across 20 hospitalsIA$272Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,751 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,751Pennsylvania: median $3,728 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,728New Jersey: median $5,464 across 25 hospitalsNJ$5,464Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,914 across 60 hospitalsCA$3,914Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $551 across 12 hospitalsMO$551Kentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: median $6,911 across 13 hospitalsAZ$6,911New Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $132 across 12 hospitalsOK$132Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,562 across 30 hospitalsTX$3,562Florida: median $1,444 across 17 hospitalsFL$1,444
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,444. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ13$6,911+379%$900 – $6,911
New York NY26$5,842+305%$216 – $5,842
Washington WA20$5,669+293%$232 – $9,024
New Jersey NJ25$5,464+278%$4,627 – $5,855
California CA60$3,914+171%$2,559 – $4,233
Pennsylvania PA19$3,728+158%$161 – $9,155
Texas TX30$3,562+147%$1,914 – $6,180
Ohio OH13$2,751+91%$320 – $8,048
Florida FL17$1,4440%$1,029 – $1,444
Wisconsin WI21$553−62%$553 – $8,378
Missouri MO12$551−62%$153 – $4,883
Michigan MI16$339−77%$142 – $6,879
Oregon OR26$301−79%$226 – $1,513
Iowa IA20$272−81%$204 – $425
Illinois IL17$205−86%$137 – $406
Oklahoma OK12$132−91%$132 – $132
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,444.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care387$2,696$226 – $5,855
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access94$369$191 – $1,271
Ownership
For-profit43$900$142 – $6,911
Government83$406$179 – $4,955
Non-profit362$2,519$235 – $5,855
System affiliation
Part of a system391$2,330$235 – $5,938
Independent98$329$165 – $3,750

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,263
Median cash price$1,444
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

364 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,410 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,901; most fall between $226 and $4,912.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 364 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
$137$272$1,410$4,233$8,346

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 61× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $8,346).

Of the 396 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 364 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

489 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 536 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted489
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code536

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures, female organs family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Colpocentesis Separate Procedure.

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 fluid from behind the vagina with a needle (CPT 57020) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-57020-draining-fluid-from-behind-the-vagina-with-a-needle