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Stapes hearing bone replacement surgery

CPT 69660the billing code this page is about

Removal or opening of the stapes hearing bone and placement of a prosthesis to restore sound transmission in the middle ear, with or without use of implanted material.

Hospitals typically charge $5,322 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 365 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,169. Most fall between $1,661 and $9,511 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
365
States
42
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 365 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
$1,385$1,958$5,322$8,913$16,038

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,385 vs $16,038).

How the prices are spread

$1,027 – $1,361: 23 hospitals$1,027$1,361 – $1,802: 50 hospitals$1,802 – $2,387: 36 hospitals$1,802$2,387 – $3,162: 21 hospitals$3,162 – $4,188: 23 hospitals$3,162$4,188 – $5,548: 24 hospitals$5,548 – $7,349: 68 hospitals$5,548$7,349 – $9,735: 36 hospitals$9,735 – $12,895: 25 hospitals$9,735$12,895 – $17,081: 30 hospitals$12,895median $5,322price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (336 of 365 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,027$1,36123
$1,361$1,80250
$1,802$2,38736
$2,387$3,16221
$3,162$4,18823
$4,188$5,54824
$5,548$7,34968
$7,349$9,73536
$9,735$12,89525
$12,895$17,08130

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$5,322
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $5,322.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,663 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,663Wisconsin: median $4,838 across 30 hospitalsWI$4,838Michigan: median $1,402 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,402New York: median $7,027 across 38 hospitalsNY$7,027Massachusetts: 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 $2,270 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,270Indiana: 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 $10,001 across 11 hospitalsPA$10,001New Jersey: median $6,548 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $16,038 across 45 hospitalsCA$16,038Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 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: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,516 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,516Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,657 across 22 hospitalsTX$5,657Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,322. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA45$16,038+201%$7,150 – $16,038
Pennsylvania PA11$10,001+88%$6,936 – $12,739
New York NY38$7,027+32%$6,048 – $9,188
New Jersey NJ29$6,548+23%$4,881 – $7,659
Texas TX22$5,657+6%$5,322 – $6,681
Wisconsin WI30$4,838−9%$3,836 – $11,905
Iowa IA17$2,270−57%$2,270 – $4,381
Illinois IL15$1,663−69%$1,407 – $5,696
Oklahoma OK13$1,516−72%$1,516 – $10,623
Michigan MI28$1,402−74%$1,027 – $8,140
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not 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

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 $5,322.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care308$6,311$1,685 – $10,088
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access51$3,836$1,503 – $7,166
Ownership
For-profit36$5,201$1,407 – $11,314
Government42$2,508$1,572 – $7,000
Non-profit287$5,696$1,685 – $10,001
System affiliation
Part of a system309$5,809$1,685 – $9,511
Independent56$2,814$1,621 – $10,088

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,504
Median cash price$5,322
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 $2,829 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,504; most fall between $1,516 and $7,150.

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
$1,402$1,663$2,829$7,150$15,519

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,402 vs $15,519).

Of the 224 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 204 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

365 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 404 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted365
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here35
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded2
Hospitals that filed this code404

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 Other therapeutic ear procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Stapedectomy/Stapedotomy.

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, “Stapes hearing bone replacement surgery (CPT 69660) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69660-stapes-hearing-bone-replacement-surgery