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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic ear procedures

Unlisted procedure on the outer ear

CPT 69399the billing code this page is about

Used for a surgery on the external ear that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $400 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 464 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $456. Most fall between $188 and $1,253 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
464
States
47
Filings dated
Dec 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 464 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
$137$220$400$771$3,574

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($137 vs $3,574).

How the prices are spread

$67 – $102: 12 hospitals$67$102 – $158: 26 hospitals$158 – $243: 73 hospitals$158$243 – $374: 82 hospitals$374 – $575: 91 hospitals$374$575 – $885: 45 hospitals$885 – $1,363: 28 hospitals$885$1,363 – $2,098: 20 hospitals$2,098 – $3,230: 10 hospitals$2,098$3,230 – $4,973: 34 hospitals$3,230median $400price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (421 of 464 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$67$10212
$102$15826
$158$24373
$243$37482
$374$57591
$575$88545
$885$1,36328
$1,363$2,09820
$2,098$3,23010
$3,230$4,97334

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$242
Median cash price$400
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.65×

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 $400.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $776 across 19 hospitalsMN$776Illinois: median $489 across 19 hospitalsIL$489Wisconsin: median $390 across 10 hospitalsWI$390Michigan: median $326 across 17 hospitalsMI$326New York: median $275 across 28 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $161 across 10 hospitalsMA$161Oregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $212 across 10 hospitalsIA$212Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $360 across 16 hospitalsOH$360Pennsylvania: median $126 across 30 hospitalsPA$126New Jersey: median $3,481 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,481Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $571 across 53 hospitalsCA$571Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $293 across 15 hospitalsVA$293Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $4,973 across 15 hospitalsSC$4,973Oklahoma: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $330 across 49 hospitalsTX$330Florida: median $712 across 20 hospitalsFL$712
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $400. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC15$4,973+1143%$211 – $4,973
New Jersey NJ31$3,481+770%$257 – $5,339
Minnesota MN19$776+94%$598 – $2,020
Florida FL20$712+78%$220 – $712
California CA53$571+43%$397 – $1,679
Illinois IL19$489+22%$213 – $632
Wisconsin WI10$390−2%$390 – $390
Ohio OH16$360−10%$220 – $3,574
Texas TX49$330−18%$218 – $434
Michigan MI17$326−19%$228 – $3,190
Virginia VA15$293−27%$283 – $911
New York NY28$275−31%$275 – $540
Iowa IA10$212−47%$117 – $392
Massachusetts MA10$161−60%$48 – $1,274
Pennsylvania PA30$126−68%$37 – $500
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $400.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care381$411$211 – $1,274
Children’s26$1,095$360 – $1,506
Critical access57$261$121 – $562
Ownership
For-profit42$598$220 – $1,928
Government59$281$200 – $1,150
Non-profit363$401$187 – $1,116
System affiliation
Part of a system397$400$188 – $1,253
Independent67$400$189 – $1,346

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$627
Median cash price$400
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

306 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $409 and the average of the middle 60% is $412; most fall between $182 and $712.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 306 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
$128$208$409$608$2,344

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($128 vs $2,344).

Of the 327 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 306 gave a usable cash price; 14 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

464 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 506 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted464
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code506

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 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 PR Unlisted Eac; Tube / Stent Insert, Replace, Remove C/T 68815.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the outer ear (CPT 69399) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69399-unlisted-procedure-on-the-outer-ear