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Procedure price report · Tympanoplasty

Repair of a hole in the eardrum

CPT 69610the billing code this page is about

Closing a perforation of the eardrum, which may include trimming the edges of the hole and placing a patch over it.

Hospitals typically charge $1,516 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 747 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,819. Most fall between $627 and $4,442 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
747
States
47
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 747 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
$423$698$1,516$3,739$6,206

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($423 vs $6,206).

How the prices are spread

$282 – $398: 21 hospitals$282$398 – $561: 71 hospitals$561 – $792: 85 hospitals$561$792 – $1,118: 87 hospitals$1,118 – $1,577: 78 hospitals$1,118$1,577 – $2,225: 94 hospitals$2,225 – $3,140: 58 hospitals$2,225$3,140 – $4,430: 68 hospitals$4,430 – $6,251: 78 hospitals$4,430$6,251 – $8,820: 50 hospitals$6,251median $1,516price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (690 of 747 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$282$39821
$398$56171
$561$79285
$792$1,11887
$1,118$1,57778
$1,577$2,22594
$2,225$3,14058
$3,140$4,43068
$4,430$6,25178
$6,251$8,82050

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,585
Median cash price$1,516
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.96×

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 $1,516.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,328 across 14 hospitalsWA$1,328Idaho: median $3,330 across 11 hospitalsID$3,330Montana: 6 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 $995 across 27 hospitalsMN$995Illinois: median $1,112 across 34 hospitalsIL$1,112Wisconsin: median $1,033 across 48 hospitalsWI$1,033Michigan: median $851 across 39 hospitalsMI$851New York: median $1,753 across 50 hospitalsNY$1,753Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $938 across 19 hospitalsOR$938Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $928 across 34 hospitalsIA$928Indiana: median $758 across 15 hospitalsIN$758Ohio: median $1,279 across 26 hospitalsOH$1,279Pennsylvania: median $1,833 across 35 hospitalsPA$1,833New Jersey: median $1,977 across 34 hospitalsNJ$1,977Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,560 across 51 hospitalsCA$4,560Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $1,033 across 19 hospitalsNE$1,033Missouri: median $2,427 across 22 hospitalsMO$2,427Kentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,476 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,476Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 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 $1,190 across 14 hospitalsKS$1,190Arkansas: 9 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 $720 across 14 hospitalsNC$720South Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $627 across 17 hospitalsOK$627Louisiana: median $2,362 across 22 hospitalsLA$2,362Mississippi: median $471 across 10 hospitalsMS$471Alabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,639 across 36 hospitalsTX$2,639Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,516. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA51$4,560+201%$1,339 – $8,820
Idaho ID11$3,330+120%$1,119 – $4,054
Texas TX36$2,639+74%$1,437 – $4,140
Missouri MO22$2,427+60%$409 – $4,761
Louisiana LA22$2,362+56%$1,389 – $3,566
New Jersey NJ34$1,977+30%$1,640 – $5,339
Pennsylvania PA35$1,833+21%$111 – $2,791
New York NY50$1,753+16%$523 – $4,595
West Virginia WV18$1,476−3%$1,034 – $2,624
Washington WA14$1,328−12%$506 – $4,099
Ohio OH26$1,279−16%$792 – $4,852
Kansas KS14$1,190−22%$515 – $4,227
Illinois IL34$1,112−27%$446 – $4,337
Wisconsin WI48$1,033−32%$679 – $1,908
Nebraska NE19$1,033−32%$435 – $2,726
Minnesota MN27$995−34%$630 – $1,307
Oregon OR19$938−38%$698 – $1,103
Iowa IA34$928−39%$773 – $1,087
Michigan MI39$851−44%$411 – $3,497
Indiana IN15$758−50%$423 – $4,864
North Carolina NC14$720−53%$368 – $4,395
Oklahoma OK17$627−59%$627 – $3,990
Mississippi MS10$471−69%$416 – $2,253
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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 $1,516.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care549$1,833$679 – $4,627
Children’s18fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access180$938$471 – $2,283
Ownership
For-profit74$2,837$753 – $7,205
Government133$1,262$585 – $2,858
Non-profit540$1,507$627 – $4,560
System affiliation
Part of a system581$1,719$639 – $4,560
Independent166$1,121$564 – $2,914

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,765
Median cash price$1,516
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

405 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,280 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,412; most fall between $523 and $3,414.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 405 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
$361$627$1,280$2,768$4,560

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($361 vs $4,560).

Of the 451 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 405 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

747 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 825 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted747
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here54
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code825

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 Tympanoplasty family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Tympanic Memb Rpr W/WO Prepj Perfor Patch.

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, “Repair of a hole in the eardrum (CPT 69610) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69610-repair-of-a-hole-in-the-eardrum