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Routine cleaning of a mastoid cavity, one ear

CPT 69220the billing code this page is about

Simple cleaning out of debris from the hollow space left after mastoid ear surgery, done at a follow-up visit for one ear.

Hospitals typically charge $220 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 792 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $219. Most fall between $100 and $342 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
792
States
50
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 792 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
$75$117$220$330$445

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($75 vs $445).

How the prices are spread

$54 – $69: 21 hospitals$54$69 – $89: 68 hospitals$89 – $114: 56 hospitals$89$114 – $146: 72 hospitals$146 – $186: 73 hospitals$146$186 – $239: 123 hospitals$239 – $306: 126 hospitals$239$306 – $392: 98 hospitals$392 – $503: 56 hospitals$392$503 – $644: 22 hospitals$503median $220price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (715 of 792 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$54$6921
$69$8968
$89$11456
$114$14672
$146$18673
$186$239123
$239$306126
$306$39298
$392$50356
$503$64422

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$205
Median cash price$220
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $220.

Alaska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 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 $254 across 23 hospitalsWA$254Idaho: median $556 across 12 hospitalsID$556Montana: 8 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 $231 across 38 hospitalsMN$231Illinois: median $162 across 41 hospitalsIL$162Wisconsin: median $205 across 46 hospitalsWI$205Michigan: median $121 across 36 hospitalsMI$121New York: median $235 across 52 hospitalsNY$235Massachusetts: median $287 across 13 hospitalsMA$287Oregon: median $161 across 21 hospitalsOR$161Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $292 across 11 hospitalsSD$292Iowa: median $227 across 34 hospitalsIA$227Indiana: median $266 across 21 hospitalsIN$266Ohio: median $293 across 31 hospitalsOH$293Pennsylvania: median $233 across 32 hospitalsPA$233New Jersey: median $503 across 28 hospitalsNJ$503Connecticut: 6 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 $335 across 54 hospitalsCA$335Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $185 across 19 hospitalsNE$185Missouri: median $133 across 15 hospitalsMO$133Kentucky: median $120 across 10 hospitalsKY$120West Virginia: median $145 across 22 hospitalsWV$145Virginia: median $214 across 19 hospitalsVA$214Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $232 across 11 hospitalsKS$232Arkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $189 across 11 hospitalsNC$189South Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $85 across 14 hospitalsOK$85Louisiana: median $90 across 19 hospitalsLA$90Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $116 across 12 hospitalsGA$116Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $259 across 31 hospitalsTX$259Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $220. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID12$556+153%$156 – $556
New Jersey NJ28$503+129%$220 – $5,339
California CA54$335+53%$94 – $342
Ohio OH31$293+33%$139 – $293
South Dakota SD11$292+33%$217 – $292
Massachusetts MA13$287+30%$177 – $469
Indiana IN21$266+21%$120 – $401
Texas TX31$259+18%$189 – $392
Washington WA23$254+16%$145 – $318
New York NY52$235+7%$117 – $440
Pennsylvania PA32$233+6%$35 – $344
Kansas KS11$232+5%$161 – $289
Minnesota MN38$231+5%$107 – $330
Iowa IA34$227+3%$108 – $244
Virginia VA19$214−3%$34 – $246
Wisconsin WI46$205−7%$154 – $342
North Carolina NC11$189−14%$81 – $388
Nebraska NE19$185−16%$122 – $278
Illinois IL41$162−26%$96 – $402
Oregon OR21$161−27%$145 – $194
West Virginia WV22$145−34%$54 – $273
Missouri MO15$133−39%$84 – $185
Michigan MI36$121−45%$75 – $342
Kentucky KY10$120−46%$75 – $173
Georgia GA12$116−47%$116 – $216
Louisiana LA19$90−59%$74 – $222
Oklahoma OK14$85−61%$85 – $405
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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 $220.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care557$233$102 – $342
Children’s23$289$193 – $392
Critical access212$184$87 – $330
Ownership
For-profit49$204$116 – $342
Government148$184$104 – $276
Non-profit595$231$95 – $342
System affiliation
Part of a system626$222$97 – $342
Independent166$193$105 – $389

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$305
Median cash price$220
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

509 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $214 and the average of the middle 60% is $223; most fall between $107 and $342.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 509 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
$85$120$214$330$428

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $428).

Of the 550 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 509 gave a usable cash price; 27 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

792 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (20%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 859 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted792
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code859

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 Debridement of wound, infection or burn family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Debride Mastoid Cavity,Simple.

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, “Routine cleaning of a mastoid cavity, one ear (CPT 69220) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69220-routine-cleaning-of-a-mastoid-cavity-one-ear