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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic endocrine procedures

Draining or injecting a thyroid cyst with a needle

CPT 60300the billing code this page is about

A needle is passed into a thyroid cyst to withdraw fluid, to inject medication, or both.

Hospitals typically charge $764 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,583 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $771. Most fall between $315 and $1,486 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,583
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 1,583 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
$184$386$764$1,265$2,015

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($184 vs $2,015).

How the prices are spread

$117 – $160: 54 hospitals$117$160 – $219: 66 hospitals$219 – $300: 103 hospitals$219$300 – $411: 132 hospitals$411 – $563: 162 hospitals$411$563 – $770: 200 hospitals$770 – $1,054: 295 hospitals$770$1,054 – $1,442: 171 hospitals$1,442 – $1,973: 134 hospitals$1,442$1,973 – $2,700: 108 hospitals$1,973median $764price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,425 of 1,583 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$117$16054
$160$21966
$219$300103
$300$411132
$411$563162
$563$770200
$770$1,054295
$1,054$1,442171
$1,442$1,973134
$1,973$2,700108

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$764
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $764.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $912 across 50 hospitalsWA$912Idaho: median $1,076 across 13 hospitalsID$1,076Montana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $413 across 54 hospitalsMN$413Illinois: median $727 across 68 hospitalsIL$727Wisconsin: median $617 across 69 hospitalsWI$617Michigan: median $589 across 65 hospitalsMI$589New York: median $833 across 54 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $1,037 across 23 hospitalsMA$1,037Oregon: median $1,112 across 31 hospitalsOR$1,112Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $386 across 25 hospitalsIA$386Indiana: median $404 across 44 hospitalsIN$404Ohio: median $826 across 96 hospitalsOH$826Pennsylvania: median $825 across 71 hospitalsPA$825New Jersey: median $1,713 across 42 hospitalsNJ$1,713Connecticut: median $1,023 across 11 hospitalsCT$1,023Rhode Island: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,511 across 128 hospitalsCA$1,511Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $868 across 37 hospitalsCO$868Nebraska: median $589 across 15 hospitalsNE$589Missouri: median $734 across 31 hospitalsMO$734Kentucky: median $675 across 11 hospitalsKY$675West Virginia: median $322 across 18 hospitalsWV$322Virginia: median $873 across 33 hospitalsVA$873Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $327 across 24 hospitalsAZ$327New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $398 across 20 hospitalsKS$398Arkansas: median $284 across 10 hospitalsAR$284Tennessee: median $228 across 33 hospitalsTN$228North Carolina: median $307 across 38 hospitalsNC$307South Carolina: median $644 across 31 hospitalsSC$644Oklahoma: median $379 across 24 hospitalsOK$379Louisiana: median $485 across 26 hospitalsLA$485Mississippi: median $324 across 29 hospitalsMS$324Alabama: median $607 across 19 hospitalsAL$607Georgia: median $1,399 across 54 hospitalsGA$1,399Hawaii: median $974 across 10 hospitalsHI$974Texas: median $833 across 108 hospitalsTX$833Florida: median $1,330 across 72 hospitalsFL$1,330
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $764. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ42$1,713+124%$779 – $4,776
California CA128$1,511+98%$639 – $2,333
Georgia GA54$1,399+83%$458 – $1,847
Florida FL72$1,330+74%$452 – $1,993
Oregon OR31$1,112+46%$188 – $1,971
Idaho ID13$1,076+41%$580 – $1,783
Massachusetts MA23$1,037+36%$353 – $1,340
Connecticut CT11$1,023+34%$827 – $1,292
Hawaii HI10$974+28%$641 – $2,043
Washington WA50$912+19%$278 – $1,376
Virginia VA33$873+14%$322 – $937
Colorado CO37$868+14%$431 – $1,323
Texas TX108$833+9%$419 – $945
New York NY54$833+9%$453 – $2,180
Ohio OH96$826+8%$607 – $1,829
Pennsylvania PA71$825+8%$516 – $1,189
Missouri MO31$734−4%$465 – $1,071
Illinois IL68$727−5%$249 – $1,792
Kentucky KY11$675−12%$425 – $753
South Carolina SC31$644−16%$478 – $1,746
Wisconsin WI69$617−19%$455 – $974
Alabama AL19$607−21%$160 – $889
Michigan MI65$589−23%$107 – $1,067
Nebraska NE15$589−23%$177 – $627
Louisiana LA26$485−36%$341 – $1,096
Minnesota MN54$413−46%$298 – $717
Indiana IN44$404−47%$146 – $952
Kansas KS20$398−48%$231 – $908
Iowa IA25$386−49%$154 – $721
Oklahoma OK24$379−50%$81 – $712
Arizona AZ24$327−57%$265 – $375
Mississippi MS29$324−58%$145 – $638
West Virginia WV18$322−58%$51 – $814
North Carolina NC38$307−60%$231 – $651
Arkansas AR10$284−63%$184 – $328
Tennessee TN33$228−70%$169 – $358
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not 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 $764.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,293$815$363 – $1,617
Children’s45$921$381 – $3,061
Critical access238$403$182 – $1,040
Ownership
For-profit121$833$295 – $1,824
Government232$557$233 – $1,096
Non-profit1,223$798$342 – $1,550
System affiliation
Part of a system1,365$779$325 – $1,520
Independent218$680$240 – $1,265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,273
Median cash price$764
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

1,214 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $815 and the average of the middle 60% is $808; most fall between $351 and $1,550.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,214 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
$216$410$815$1,307$1,994

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($216 vs $1,994).

Of the 1,282 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,214 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 50 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,583 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (40%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,703 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,583
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded4
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded59
Hospitals that filed this code1,703

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 therapeutic endocrine procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Aspiration and/or Injection Thyroid 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, “Draining or injecting a thyroid cyst with a needle (CPT 60300) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-60300-draining-or-injecting-a-thyroid-cyst-with-a-needle