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Removal of an entire skin-post bone-anchored hearing implant

CPT 69726the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out the whole bone-anchored hearing implant of the type with a post that passes through the skin to attach the external sound processor.

Hospitals typically charge $3,701 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 222 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,101. Most fall between $1,132 and $6,384 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
222
States
33
Filings dated
Sep 2025 – 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 222 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
$610$1,398$3,701$5,741$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($610 vs $8,372).

How the prices are spread

$332 – $458: 5 hospitals$332$458 – $633: 14 hospitals$633 – $876: 8 hospitals$633$876 – $1,210: 11 hospitals$1,210 – $1,673: 10 hospitals$1,210$1,673 – $2,312: 5 hospitals$2,312 – $3,195: 8 hospitals$2,312$3,195 – $4,416: 68 hospitals$4,416 – $6,103: 28 hospitals$4,416$6,103 – $8,436: 46 hospitals$6,103median $3,701price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (203 of 222 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$332$4585
$458$63314
$633$8768
$876$1,21011
$1,210$1,67310
$1,673$2,3125
$2,312$3,1958
$3,195$4,41668
$4,416$6,10328
$6,103$8,43646

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,343
Median cash price$3,701
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.11×

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 $3,701.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $3,840 across 21 hospitalsNY$3,840Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $8,436 across 17 hospitalsOH$8,436Pennsylvania: median $359 across 18 hospitalsPA$359New Jersey: median $3,986 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,384 across 34 hospitalsCA$6,384Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital 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: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $3,701 across 31 hospitalsTX$3,701Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,701. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH17$8,436+128%$1,943 – $8,436
California CA34$6,384+73%$5,273 – $6,384
New Jersey NJ22$3,986+8%$3,591 – $5,419
New York NY21$3,840+4%$1,380 – $3,840
Texas TX31$3,7010%$3,701 – $3,701
Pennsylvania PA18$359−90%$292 – $5,486
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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
West Virginia WV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $3,701.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care203$3,821$1,223 – $6,384
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access12fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit26$3,701$610 – $5,576
Government18fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit178$3,804$1,159 – $6,384
System affiliation
Part of a system194$3,804$1,159 – $6,384
Independent28$2,382$813 – $6,384

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,168
Median cash price$3,701
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

133 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,701 and the average of the middle 60% is $4,125; most fall between $949 and $6,384.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 133 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
$610$1,195$3,701$6,384$8,372

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($610 vs $8,372).

Of the 139 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 133 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 0 a list price only.

How complete is this

222 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 235 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted222
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here10
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code235

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 Removal Entire Oi Implt Skl Perq Attachment Esp.

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, “Removal of an entire skin-post bone-anchored hearing implant (CPT 69726) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69726-removal-of-an-entire-skin-post-bone-anchored-hearing-implant