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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic ear procedures

Removal of bony growths from the ear canal

CPT 69140the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out one or more bony overgrowths that narrow the external ear canal.

Hospitals typically charge $3,795 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 346 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,212. Most fall between $1,516 and $7,537 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
346
States
44
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 346 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
$1,013$1,745$3,795$7,390$10,371

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,013 vs $10,371).

How the prices are spread

$914 – $1,189: 28 hospitals$914$1,189 – $1,548: 30 hospitals$1,548 – $2,015: 29 hospitals$1,548$2,015 – $2,622: 27 hospitals$2,622 – $3,413: 28 hospitals$2,622$3,413 – $4,442: 31 hospitals$4,442 – $5,782: 31 hospitals$4,442$5,782 – $7,525: 57 hospitals$7,525 – $9,794: 21 hospitals$7,525$9,794 – $12,747: 33 hospitals$9,794median $3,795price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (315 of 346 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$914$1,18928
$1,189$1,54830
$1,548$2,01529
$2,015$2,62227
$2,622$3,41328
$3,413$4,44231
$4,442$5,78231
$5,782$7,52557
$7,525$9,79421
$9,794$12,74733

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$3,795
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.63×

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 $3,795.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,607 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,607Wisconsin: median $3,795 across 23 hospitalsWI$3,795Michigan: median $1,754 across 18 hospitalsMI$1,754New York: median $7,000 across 30 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,141 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,141Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $6,936 across 15 hospitalsPA$6,936New Jersey: median $6,548 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,829 across 42 hospitalsCA$2,829Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,459 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,459Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,391 across 22 hospitalsTX$7,391Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,795. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX22$7,391+95%$5,657 – $7,391
New York NY30$7,000+84%$1,804 – $7,000
Pennsylvania PA15$6,936+83%$199 – $10,001
New Jersey NJ29$6,548+73%$5,110 – $7,894
Wisconsin WI23$3,7950%$3,795 – $4,697
California CA42$2,829−25%$2,652 – $10,371
Iowa IA18$2,141−44%$1,745 – $2,141
Michigan MI18$1,754−54%$1,302 – $8,140
Illinois IL15$1,607−58%$914 – $7,537
Oklahoma OK13$1,459−62%$1,459 – $9,310
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $3,795.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care290$4,315$1,516 – $7,894
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access49$3,795$1,531 – $5,355
Ownership
For-profit36$3,953$993 – $11,145
Government48$2,607$1,570 – $7,000
Non-profit262$3,795$1,547 – $7,659
System affiliation
Part of a system287$3,956$1,531 – $7,894
Independent59$2,740$1,495 – $7,264

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,375
Median cash price$3,795
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

211 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,652 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,227; most fall between $1,302 and $7,391.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 211 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
$914$1,459$2,652$7,391$10,371

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($914 vs $10,371).

Of the 222 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 211 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

346 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 378 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted346
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code378

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 therapeutic ear procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Excision Exostosis External Auditory Canal.

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, “Removal of bony growths from the ear canal (CPT 69140) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69140-removal-of-bony-growths-from-the-ear-canal