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Removal of a growth from the ear canal or middle ear

CPT 69540the billing code this page is about

Excision of an aural polyp, a soft inflammatory growth arising in the ear canal or middle ear.

Hospitals typically charge $954 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 434 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,206. Most fall between $347 and $2,791 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
434
States
46
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 434 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
$230$379$954$2,164$4,107

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($230 vs $4,107).

How the prices are spread

$182 – $251: 36 hospitals$182$251 – $348: 37 hospitals$348 – $482: 45 hospitals$348$482 – $667: 54 hospitals$667 – $923: 14 hospitals$667$923 – $1,278: 28 hospitals$1,278 – $1,769: 53 hospitals$1,278$1,769 – $2,449: 62 hospitals$2,449 – $3,390: 31 hospitals$2,449$3,390 – $4,693: 40 hospitals$3,390median $954price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (400 of 434 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$182$25136
$251$34837
$348$48245
$482$66754
$667$92314
$923$1,27828
$1,278$1,76953
$1,769$2,44962
$2,449$3,39031
$3,390$4,69340

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$954
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.60×

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 $954.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $656 across 26 hospitalsMN$656Illinois: median $379 across 17 hospitalsIL$379Wisconsin: median $935 across 40 hospitalsWI$935Michigan: median $565 across 26 hospitalsMI$565New York: median $1,753 across 31 hospitalsNY$1,753Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $500 across 19 hospitalsIA$500Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $325 across 14 hospitalsOH$325Pennsylvania: median $1,833 across 17 hospitalsPA$1,833New Jersey: median $2,007 across 24 hospitalsNJ$2,007Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,063 across 46 hospitalsCA$3,063Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $212 across 13 hospitalsOK$212Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,968 across 23 hospitalsTX$1,968Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $954. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA46$3,063+221%$1,396 – $4,693
New Jersey NJ24$2,007+110%$1,640 – $5,419
Texas TX23$1,968+106%$1,620 – $2,164
Pennsylvania PA17$1,833+92%$1,737 – $2,730
New York NY31$1,753+84%$284 – $1,842
Wisconsin WI40$935−2%$371 – $1,625
Minnesota MN26$656−31%$413 – $1,713
Michigan MI26$565−41%$310 – $935
Iowa IA19$500−48%$406 – $600
Illinois IL17$379−60%$182 – $1,189
Ohio OH14$325−66%$197 – $1,697
Oklahoma OK13$212−78%$212 – $3,020
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not 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
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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
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 $954.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care348$1,617$352 – $3,063
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access78$590$310 – $1,102
Ownership
For-profit35$1,442$212 – $3,670
Government61$600$315 – $1,812
Non-profit338$935$362 – $3,063
System affiliation
Part of a system345$1,396$361 – $3,063
Independent89$625$298 – $1,904

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$991
Median cash price$954
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

270 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $886 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,030; most fall between $245 and $2,425.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 270 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
$182$310$886$2,164$3,851

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($182 vs $3,851).

Of the 292 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 270 gave a usable cash price; 15 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

434 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 481 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted434
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code481

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 Excision Aural Polyp.

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 growth from the ear canal or middle ear (CPT 69540) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69540-removal-of-a-growth-from-the-ear-canal-or-middle-ear