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Eardrum repair with mastoid surgery, canal wall intact

CPT 69643the billing code this page is about

Repair of the eardrum combined with opening of the mastoid air spaces, leaving the ear canal wall intact or rebuilt, without rebuilding the hearing bones.

Hospitals typically charge $5,088 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 351 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,476. Most fall between $2,144 and $12,585 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
351
States
43
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 351 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
$1,708$2,553$5,088$9,928$15,519

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,708 vs $15,519).

How the prices are spread

$1,365 – $1,818: 36 hospitals$1,365$1,818 – $2,423: 31 hospitals$2,423 – $3,229: 52 hospitals$2,423$3,229 – $4,302: 23 hospitals$4,302 – $5,733: 37 hospitals$4,302$5,733 – $7,639: 45 hospitals$7,639 – $10,180: 33 hospitals$7,639$10,180 – $13,565: 17 hospitals$13,565 – $18,076: 32 hospitals$13,565$18,076 – $24,087: 13 hospitals$18,076median $5,088price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (319 of 351 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,365$1,81836
$1,818$2,42331
$2,423$3,22952
$3,229$4,30223
$4,302$5,73337
$5,733$7,63945
$7,639$10,18033
$10,180$13,56517
$13,565$18,07632
$18,076$24,08713

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$5,088
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $5,088.

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: 4 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,086 across 16 hospitalsIL$2,086Wisconsin: median $5,088 across 21 hospitalsWI$5,088Michigan: median $1,454 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,454New York: median $7,000 across 27 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 6 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,997 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,997Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,459 across 14 hospitalsOH$4,459Pennsylvania: median $10,001 across 10 hospitalsPA$10,001New Jersey: median $6,311 across 23 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 45 hospitalsCA$14,319Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,002 across 14 hospitalsOK$2,002Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $9,928 across 22 hospitalsTX$9,928Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,088. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA45$14,319+181%$2,652 – $14,319
Pennsylvania PA10$10,001+97%$6,936 – $12,739
Texas TX22$9,928+95%$7,876 – $9,928
New York NY27$7,000+38%$3,515 – $7,390
New Jersey NJ23$6,311+24%$4,627 – $6,553
Wisconsin WI21$5,0880%$5,088 – $13,529
Ohio OH14$4,459−12%$2,518 – $15,945
Iowa IA17$2,997−41%$2,997 – $3,396
Illinois IL16$2,086−59%$1,758 – $16,345
Oklahoma OK14$2,002−61%$2,002 – $12,585
Michigan MI28$1,454−71%$1,365 – $5,088
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not 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
South Dakota SD1not 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 $5,088.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care299$5,088$2,163 – $12,562
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access41$5,088$1,758 – $13,529
Ownership
For-profit35$5,341$1,758 – $10,088
Government42$3,753$2,209 – $7,000
Non-profit274$5,088$2,144 – $13,529
System affiliation
Part of a system289$5,088$2,226 – $13,529
Independent62$3,581$1,989 – $9,882

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,100
Median cash price$5,088
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

204 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,997 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,253; most fall between $2,002 and $9,928.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 204 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
$1,758$2,226$2,997$9,186$14,319

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,758 vs $14,319).

Of the 225 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 204 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 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

351 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 396 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted351
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code396

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 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 Mastoidectomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Tmpp Mastoidect Ntc/Rcnsted Wall W/O Ocr.

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 surgery, canal wall intact (CPT 69643) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69643-eardrum-repair-with-mastoid-surgery-canal-wall-intact