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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic ear procedures

Surgery to reshape protruding ears

CPT 69300the billing code this page is about

Reshaping of the visible outer ear to correct ears that stick out, with or without reducing ear size.

Hospitals typically charge $2,015 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 400 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,502. Most fall between $962 and $5,269 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
400
States
45
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 400 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
$735$1,185$2,015$4,327$8,795

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($735 vs $8,795).

How the prices are spread

$653 – $847: 40 hospitals$653$847 – $1,098: 36 hospitals$1,098 – $1,425: 32 hospitals$1,098$1,425 – $1,849: 42 hospitals$1,849 – $2,399: 40 hospitals$1,849$2,399 – $3,113: 36 hospitals$3,113 – $4,038: 41 hospitals$3,113$4,038 – $5,240: 31 hospitals$5,240 – $6,798: 28 hospitals$5,240$6,798 – $8,820: 36 hospitals$6,798median $2,015price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (362 of 400 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$653$84740
$847$1,09836
$1,098$1,42532
$1,425$1,84942
$1,849$2,39940
$2,399$3,11336
$3,113$4,03841
$4,038$5,24031
$5,240$6,79828
$6,798$8,82036

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$2,015
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.59×

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 $2,015.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $818 across 16 hospitalsIL$818Wisconsin: median $3,071 across 29 hospitalsWI$3,071Michigan: median $980 across 28 hospitalsMI$980New York: median $3,838 across 25 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,185 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,185Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,522 across 17 hospitalsIA$1,522Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,299 across 12 hospitalsOH$1,299Pennsylvania: median $5,036 across 11 hospitalsPA$5,036New Jersey: median $4,327 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,327Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,909 across 41 hospitalsCA$1,909Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 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: 4 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $775 across 13 hospitalsOK$775Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $8,466 across 10 hospitalsGA$8,466Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,524 across 26 hospitalsTX$2,524Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,015. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$8,466+320%$3,900 – $8,466
Pennsylvania PA11$5,036+150%$3,802 – $6,634
New Jersey NJ31$4,327+115%$3,593 – $5,419
New York NY25$3,838+90%$1,381 – $3,935
Wisconsin WI29$3,071+52%$1,872 – $6,211
Texas TX26$2,524+25%$2,404 – $3,110
California CA41$1,909−5%$1,456 – $8,820
Iowa IA17$1,522−24%$1,320 – $1,522
Ohio OH12$1,299−36%$1,006 – $3,434
Oregon OR10$1,185−41%$1,185 – $1,593
Michigan MI28$980−51%$854 – $2,544
Illinois IL16$818−59%$735 – $2,869
Oklahoma OK13$775−62%$775 – $5,378
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $2,015.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care322$2,404$962 – $5,378
Children’s21$2,035$1,201 – $4,144
Critical access57$1,872$854 – $3,071
Ownership
For-profit43$2,575$967 – $6,249
Government50$1,320$814 – $3,838
Non-profit307$2,035$1,003 – $5,597
System affiliation
Part of a system327$2,373$1,001 – $5,483
Independent73$1,532$873 – $4,265

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,800
Median cash price$2,015
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

234 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,672 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,866; most fall between $778 and $4,783.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 234 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
$730$980$1,672$3,212$8,795

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($730 vs $8,795).

Of the 257 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 234 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

400 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 444 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted400
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code444

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 Otoplasty Protruding Ear W/WO Size Rdctj.

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, “Surgery to reshape protruding ears (CPT 69300) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69300-surgery-to-reshape-protruding-ears