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Procedure price report · Mastoidectomy

Complete removal of diseased mastoid bone

CPT 69502the billing code this page is about

Surgery behind the ear that removes the infected or diseased air cells of the mastoid bone while leaving the ear canal wall and middle ear structures intact.

Hospitals typically charge $4,350 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 304 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,674. Most fall between $1,586 and $9,025 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
304
States
43
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 304 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
$1,168$1,721$4,350$7,402$14,319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,168 vs $14,319).

How the prices are spread

$1,107 – $1,443: 30 hospitals$1,107$1,443 – $1,881: 38 hospitals$1,881 – $2,453: 31 hospitals$1,881$2,453 – $3,198: 14 hospitals$3,198 – $4,170: 19 hospitals$3,198$4,170 – $5,437: 21 hospitals$5,437 – $7,090: 55 hospitals$5,437$7,090 – $9,244: 22 hospitals$9,244 – $12,053: 13 hospitals$9,244$12,053 – $15,716: 31 hospitals$12,053median $4,350price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (274 of 304 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,107$1,44330
$1,443$1,88138
$1,881$2,45331
$2,453$3,19814
$3,198$4,17019
$4,170$5,43721
$5,437$7,09055
$7,090$9,24422
$9,244$12,05313
$12,053$15,71631

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$4,350
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

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 $4,350.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,616 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,616Wisconsin: median $7,078 across 10 hospitalsWI$7,078Michigan: median $1,142 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,142New York: median $7,000 across 31 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,343 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,343Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $6,548 across 30 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $14,319 across 29 hospitalsCA$14,319Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals 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: 7 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,551 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,551Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,969 across 20 hospitalsTX$6,969Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,350. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA29$14,319+229%$3,198 – $14,319
Wisconsin WI10$7,078+63%$4,233 – $7,078
New York NY31$7,000+61%$1,852 – $7,027
Texas TX20$6,969+60%$5,657 – $6,969
New Jersey NJ30$6,548+51%$4,881 – $7,659
Iowa IA15$2,343−46%$2,343 – $2,343
Illinois IL13$1,616−63%$1,168 – $54,427
Oklahoma OK12$1,551−64%$1,551 – $1,551
Michigan MI23$1,142−74%$1,142 – $2,228
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $4,350.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care264$4,627$1,609 – $9,882
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$2,826$1,168 – $7,078
Ownership
For-profit33$4,396$1,168 – $9,902
Government37$3,926$1,712 – $7,000
Non-profit234$4,627$1,551 – $9,882
System affiliation
Part of a system246$5,269$1,551 – $9,186
Independent58$3,212$1,697 – $8,230

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,838
Median cash price$4,350
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

169 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,343 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,253; most fall between $1,551 and $8,540.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 169 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
$1,168$1,606$2,343$6,969$14,319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,168 vs $14,319).

Of the 191 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 169 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 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

304 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 337 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted304
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here25
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code337

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 Mastoidectomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Mastoidectomy,Complete.

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, “Complete removal of diseased mastoid bone (CPT 69502) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69502-complete-removal-of-diseased-mastoid-bone