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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic ear procedures

Unlisted procedure on the middle ear

CPT 69799the billing code this page is about

Used for a middle ear operation that has no specific billing code of its own; the surgeon's report describes what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $344 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $491. Most fall between $187 and $1,983 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
296
States
43
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 296 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
$139$233$344$888$5,110

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 37× what the cheapest tenth charges ($139 vs $5,110).

How the prices are spread

$69 – $114: 11 hospitals$69$114 – $190: 35 hospitals$190 – $314: 73 hospitals$190$314 – $521: 42 hospitals$521 – $864: 44 hospitals$521$864 – $1,433: 10 hospitals$1,433 – $2,375: 13 hospitals$1,433$2,375 – $3,938: 10 hospitals$3,938 – $6,528: 23 hospitals$3,938$6,528 – $10,823: 14 hospitals$6,528median $344price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (275 of 296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$69$11411
$114$19035
$190$31473
$314$52142
$521$86444
$864$1,43310
$1,433$2,37513
$2,375$3,93810
$3,938$6,52823
$6,528$10,82314

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$242
Median cash price$344
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.42×

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 $344.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $358 across 12 hospitalsIL$358Wisconsin: median $36 across 20 hospitalsWI$36Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $275 across 25 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: median $723 across 10 hospitalsMA$723Oregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $10,823 across 16 hospitalsOH$10,823Pennsylvania: median $139 across 20 hospitalsPA$139New Jersey: median $311 across 29 hospitalsNJ$311Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $571 across 29 hospitalsCA$571Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $200 across 11 hospitalsMO$200Kentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $356 across 17 hospitalsVA$356Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $187 across 27 hospitalsTX$187Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $344. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH16$10,823+3051%$260 – $10,823
Massachusetts MA10$723+110%$721 – $882
California CA29$571+66%$571 – $656
Illinois IL12$358+4%$69 – $562
Virginia VA17$356+3%$344 – $827
New Jersey NJ29$311−10%$257 – $5,339
New York NY25$275−20%$275 – $810
Missouri MO11$200−42%$145 – $4,983
Texas TX27$187−45%$168 – $2,444
Pennsylvania PA20$139−59%$109 – $437
Wisconsin WI20$36−89%$36 – $299
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not 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
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $344.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care260$358$211 – $2,122
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access33$260$119 – $783
Ownership
For-profit26$656$211 – $3,934
Government49$326$232 – $1,399
Non-profit221$344$187 – $1,901
System affiliation
Part of a system251$356$187 – $2,116
Independent45$337$167 – $1,399

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$711
Median cash price$344
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

180 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $361 and the average of the middle 60% is $420; most fall between $161 and $852.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 180 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
$109$185$361$721$2,447

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($109 vs $2,447).

Of the 192 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 180 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

296 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 323 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here20
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code323

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 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 PR Implant Bonebridge W/O Mastoidectomy C/T 69714.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the middle ear (CPT 69799) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69799-unlisted-procedure-on-the-middle-ear