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Procedure price report · Tympanoplasty

Eardrum patch repair

CPT 69620the billing code this page is about

Myringoplasty, a repair limited to the eardrum itself and the area where graft tissue is taken, without work inside the middle ear.

Hospitals typically charge $3,116 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 616 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,988. Most fall between $1,205 and $5,296 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
616
States
48
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 616 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
$840$1,351$3,116$4,627$8,227

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($840 vs $8,227).

How the prices are spread

$598 – $784: 21 hospitals$598$784 – $1,028: 51 hospitals$1,028 – $1,348: 47 hospitals$1,028$1,348 – $1,768: 77 hospitals$1,768 – $2,319: 38 hospitals$1,768$2,319 – $3,041: 38 hospitals$3,041 – $3,989: 89 hospitals$3,041$3,989 – $5,232: 97 hospitals$5,232 – $6,862: 36 hospitals$5,232$6,862 – $8,999: 62 hospitals$6,862median $3,116price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (556 of 616 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$598$78421
$784$1,02851
$1,028$1,34847
$1,348$1,76877
$1,768$2,31938
$2,319$3,04138
$3,041$3,98989
$3,989$5,23297
$5,232$6,86236
$6,862$8,99962

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,387
Median cash price$3,116
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.92×

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 $3,116.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 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: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,363 across 26 hospitalsMN$2,363Illinois: median $1,346 across 25 hospitalsIL$1,346Wisconsin: median $3,116 across 49 hospitalsWI$3,116Michigan: median $971 across 33 hospitalsMI$971New York: median $3,838 across 49 hospitalsNY$3,838Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,725 across 30 hospitalsIA$1,725Indiana: median $4,662 across 23 hospitalsIN$4,662Ohio: median $1,724 across 19 hospitalsOH$1,724Pennsylvania: median $4,783 across 13 hospitalsPA$4,783New Jersey: median $4,075 across 32 hospitalsNJ$4,075Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,229 across 50 hospitalsCA$3,229Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,057 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,057Missouri: median $2,371 across 12 hospitalsMO$2,371Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $3,624 across 14 hospitalsWV$3,624Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $963 across 15 hospitalsOK$963Louisiana: median $3,743 across 15 hospitalsLA$3,743Mississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $8,568 across 14 hospitalsGA$8,568Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,065 across 29 hospitalsTX$4,065Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,116. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA14$8,568+175%$1,592 – $9,750
Pennsylvania PA13$4,783+53%$1,981 – $6,111
Indiana IN23$4,662+50%$901 – $7,025
New Jersey NJ32$4,075+31%$3,590 – $5,339
Texas TX29$4,065+30%$2,626 – $4,926
New York NY49$3,838+23%$1,593 – $4,595
Louisiana LA15$3,743+20%$1,493 – $5,299
West Virginia WV14$3,624+16%$2,488 – $3,828
California CA50$3,229+4%$1,456 – $8,999
Wisconsin WI49$3,1160%$1,230 – $4,085
Missouri MO12$2,371−24%$971 – $4,323
Minnesota MN26$2,363−24%$1,262 – $4,267
Nebraska NE10$2,057−34%$1,219 – $3,825
Iowa IA30$1,725−45%$1,250 – $1,881
Ohio OH19$1,724−45%$1,261 – $9,915
Illinois IL25$1,346−57%$862 – $4,069
Michigan MI33$971−69%$465 – $7,360
Oklahoma OK15$963−69%$963 – $5,011
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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 $3,116.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care475$3,485$1,300 – $5,468
Children’s14fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access127$1,911$971 – $4,267
Ownership
For-profit58$4,651$1,812 – $7,743
Government96$1,963$971 – $4,208
Non-profit462$3,116$1,230 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system496$3,249$1,230 – $5,439
Independent120$1,829$952 – $4,572

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,494
Median cash price$3,116
Cash as a share of list, median hospital63%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 37%. 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

319 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,768 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,213; most fall between $963 and $4,926.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 319 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
$785$1,180$1,768$4,065$8,568

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($785 vs $8,568).

Of the 357 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 319 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

616 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 687 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted616
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
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 — excluded16
Hospitals that filed this code687

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 Myringoplasty.

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, “Eardrum patch repair (CPT 69620) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69620-eardrum-patch-repair