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Removal of a soft tissue growth from the ear canal

CPT 69145the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove a soft tissue lesion from the external ear canal.

Hospitals typically charge $2,007 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 749 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,272. Most fall between $687 and $5,037 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
749
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 749 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
$408$740$2,007$4,191$7,617

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($408 vs $7,617).

How the prices are spread

$317 – $438: 54 hospitals$317$438 – $604: 47 hospitals$604 – $835: 72 hospitals$604$835 – $1,153: 63 hospitals$1,153 – $1,593: 63 hospitals$1,153$1,593 – $2,201: 62 hospitals$2,201 – $3,040: 60 hospitals$2,201$3,040 – $4,199: 107 hospitals$4,199 – $5,801: 73 hospitals$4,199$5,801 – $8,013: 76 hospitals$5,801median $2,007price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (677 of 749 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$317$43854
$438$60447
$604$83572
$835$1,15363
$1,153$1,59363
$1,593$2,20162
$2,201$3,04060
$3,040$4,199107
$4,199$5,80173
$5,801$8,01376

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$2,007
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $2,007.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $3,496 across 21 hospitalsWA$3,496Idaho: median $7,500 across 10 hospitalsID$7,500Montana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,388 across 23 hospitalsMN$1,388Illinois: median $871 across 27 hospitalsIL$871Wisconsin: median $1,554 across 49 hospitalsWI$1,554Michigan: median $398 across 33 hospitalsMI$398New York: median $3,387 across 45 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,015 across 24 hospitalsOR$1,015Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $974 across 24 hospitalsIA$974Indiana: median $1,588 across 22 hospitalsIN$1,588Ohio: median $2,734 across 39 hospitalsOH$2,734Pennsylvania: median $3,356 across 20 hospitalsPA$3,356New Jersey: median $4,641 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,641Connecticut: 2 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 $4,082 across 68 hospitalsCA$4,082Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,984 across 13 hospitalsNE$2,984Missouri: median $2,359 across 17 hospitalsMO$2,359Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,339 across 12 hospitalsWV$3,339Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $823 across 10 hospitalsTN$823North Carolina: median $1,608 across 12 hospitalsNC$1,608South Carolina: median $2,566 across 11 hospitalsSC$2,566Oklahoma: median $421 across 14 hospitalsOK$421Louisiana: median $1,516 across 18 hospitalsLA$1,516Mississippi: median $791 across 12 hospitalsMS$791Alabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,669 across 18 hospitalsGA$1,669Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,079 across 36 hospitalsTX$3,079Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,007. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$7,500+274%$1,793 – $7,765
New Jersey NJ31$4,641+131%$3,171 – $6,864
California CA68$4,082+103%$2,105 – $7,683
Washington WA21$3,496+74%$741 – $5,968
New York NY45$3,387+69%$543 – $3,626
Pennsylvania PA20$3,356+67%$431 – $5,393
West Virginia WV12$3,339+66%$1,770 – $7,191
Texas TX36$3,079+53%$2,833 – $4,504
Nebraska NE13$2,984+49%$991 – $4,774
Ohio OH39$2,734+36%$570 – $4,911
South Carolina SC11$2,566+28%$2,385 – $3,384
Missouri MO17$2,359+18%$525 – $9,057
Georgia GA18$1,669−17%$1,669 – $5,507
North Carolina NC12$1,608−20%$643 – $4,647
Indiana IN22$1,588−21%$358 – $2,371
Wisconsin WI49$1,554−23%$702 – $2,007
Louisiana LA18$1,516−24%$957 – $2,989
Minnesota MN23$1,388−31%$629 – $2,041
Oregon OR24$1,015−49%$740 – $7,697
Iowa IA24$974−51%$733 – $979
Illinois IL27$871−57%$414 – $5,008
Tennessee TN10$823−59%$442 – $3,632
Mississippi MS12$791−61%$321 – $5,427
Oklahoma OK14$421−79%$421 – $5,258
Michigan MI33$398−80%$317 – $5,744
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not 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
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 $2,007.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care568$2,833$725 – $5,669
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access162$991$500 – $2,605
Ownership
For-profit69$3,159$991 – $6,314
Government114$1,988$643 – $3,833
Non-profit564$1,894$700 – $5,008
System affiliation
Part of a system601$2,117$702 – $5,427
Independent148$1,067$497 – $3,833

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,905
Median cash price$2,007
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

436 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,671 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,075; most fall between $544 and $4,747.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 436 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
$358$702$1,671$4,082$6,167

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($358 vs $6,167).

Of the 482 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 436 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

749 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 829 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted749
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here59
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code829

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 ear procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Remv Ext Canal Soft Tissue Lesn.

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 a soft tissue growth from the ear canal (CPT 69145) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69145-removal-of-a-soft-tissue-growth-from-the-ear-canal