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Pituitary tumor removal through the nose with a scope

CPT 62165the billing code this page is about

Endoscopic surgery reaching the pituitary gland through the nose or sinus behind it to remove a pituitary tumor.

Hospitals typically charge $3,663 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 160 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,733. Most fall between $2,122 and $6,034 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
160
States
39
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 160 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
$1,748$2,327$3,663$5,450$7,429

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,748 vs $7,429).

How the prices are spread

$1,464 – $1,778: 17 hospitals$1,464$1,778 – $2,160: 10 hospitals$2,160 – $2,623: 11 hospitals$2,160$2,623 – $3,186: 16 hospitals$3,186 – $3,870: 30 hospitals$3,186$3,870 – $4,700: 18 hospitals$4,700 – $5,709: 13 hospitals$4,700$5,709 – $6,934: 22 hospitals$6,934 – $8,422: 5 hospitals$6,934$8,422 – $10,229: 4 hospitals$8,422median $3,663price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (146 of 160 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,464$1,77817
$1,778$2,16010
$2,160$2,62311
$2,623$3,18616
$3,186$3,87030
$3,870$4,70018
$4,700$5,70913
$5,709$6,93422
$6,934$8,4225
$8,422$10,2294

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,663.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,852 across 10 hospitalsIL$2,852Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $2,122 across 12 hospitalsMI$2,122New York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $3,663 across 15 hospitalsIA$3,663Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $5,825 across 10 hospitalsOH$5,825Pennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $5,110 across 12 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $3,193 across 10 hospitalsOK$3,193Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,663. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH10$5,825+59%$3,566 – $6,040
New Jersey NJ12$5,110+39%$4,350 – $5,855
Iowa IA15$3,6630%$3,663 – $3,663
Oklahoma OK10$3,193−13%$3,193 – $3,193
Illinois IL10$2,852−22%$1,748 – $3,750
Michigan MI12$2,122−42%$2,122 – $2,327
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $3,663.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care140$3,663$2,124 – $6,040
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access12fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit15fewer than 20 hospitals
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit126$3,663$2,165 – $6,034
System affiliation
Part of a system125$3,663$2,122 – $6,040
Independent35$3,780$2,189 – $4,663

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,579
Median cash price$3,663
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

111 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,193 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,123; most fall between $1,748 and $5,261.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 111 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
$1,711$2,165$3,193$4,599$6,483

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,711 vs $6,483).

Of the 141 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 111 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

160 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (4%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 201 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted160
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code201

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 therapeutic endocrine procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Nundsc Icra Exc Pituitry Tum Trnsnsl/Sphenoid.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Pituitary tumor removal through the nose with a scope (CPT 62165) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-62165-pituitary-tumor-removal-through-the-nose-with-a-scope