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Eardrum repair with mastoid opening and hearing bone implant

CPT 69637the billing code this page is about

Surgical rebuilding of the eardrum along with opening of the air cell area behind the ear, with reconstruction of the small hearing bones using an artificial prosthesis.

Hospitals typically charge $4,881 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 288 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,349. Most fall between $2,279 and $11,064 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
288
States
41
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 288 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
$1,612$2,559$4,881$9,422$14,319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,612 vs $14,319).

How the prices are spread

$1,557 – $1,959: 32 hospitals$1,557$1,959 – $2,466: 23 hospitals$2,466 – $3,103: 39 hospitals$2,466$3,103 – $3,906: 25 hospitals$3,906 – $4,915: 13 hospitals$3,906$4,915 – $6,186: 15 hospitals$6,186 – $7,785: 42 hospitals$6,186$7,785 – $9,798: 15 hospitals$9,798 – $12,331: 22 hospitals$9,798$12,331 – $15,519: 37 hospitals$12,331median $4,881price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (263 of 288 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,557$1,95932
$1,959$2,46623
$2,466$3,10339
$3,103$3,90625
$3,906$4,91513
$4,915$6,18615
$6,186$7,78542
$7,785$9,79815
$9,798$12,33122
$12,331$15,51937

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$4,881
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.81×

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 $4,881.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,426 across 13 hospitalsIL$2,426Wisconsin: median $6,806 across 16 hospitalsWI$6,806Michigan: median $1,612 across 22 hospitalsMI$1,612New York: median $7,000 across 22 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital 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 $3,370 across 16 hospitalsIA$3,370Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $8,540 across 10 hospitalsPA$8,540New Jersey: median $6,311 across 22 hospitalsNJ$6,311Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $14,319 across 41 hospitalsCA$14,319Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: 1 hospital 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: 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: 3 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: 2 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 $2,279 across 13 hospitalsOK$2,279Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $11,064 across 21 hospitalsTX$11,064Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,881. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA41$14,319+193%$2,652 – $14,319
Texas TX21$11,064+127%$9,422 – $11,064
Pennsylvania PA10$8,540+75%$3,908 – $11,147
New York NY22$7,000+43%$4,050 – $7,027
Wisconsin WI16$6,806+39%$6,806 – $13,506
New Jersey NJ22$6,311+29%$4,881 – $6,553
Iowa IA16$3,370−31%$3,370 – $3,370
Illinois IL13$2,426−50%$1,557 – $12,282
Oklahoma OK13$2,279−53%$2,279 – $12,061
Michigan MI22$1,612−67%$1,612 – $2,970
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not 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
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not 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
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not 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 $4,881.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care242$4,767$2,279 – $11,064
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access36$5,355$1,612 – $13,506
Ownership
For-profit26$5,277$1,557 – $11,064
Government35$3,620$2,386 – $7,000
Non-profit227$5,339$2,279 – $12,061
System affiliation
Part of a system244$5,355$2,279 – $11,064
Independent44$3,908$2,406 – $9,882

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,100
Median cash price$4,881
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

175 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,970 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,441; most fall between $1,894 and $11,064.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 175 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
$1,557$2,279$2,970$11,064$14,319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,557 vs $14,319).

Of the 193 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 175 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 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

288 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 320 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted288
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
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 — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code320

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 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 Tympanoplasty family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Tmpp Antrt/Mastoidotomy Prosthesis Torp.

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 repair with mastoid opening and hearing bone implant (CPT 69637) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69637-eardrum-repair-with-mastoid-opening-and-hearing-bone-implant