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Removal of the inner ear balance organ through the ear canal

CPT 69905the billing code this page is about

Surgery through the ear canal to destroy or remove the balance portion of the inner ear, used for severe vertigo.

Hospitals typically charge $4,556 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 201 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,349. Most fall between $1,672 and $7,659 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
201
States
34
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 201 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
$1,443$2,075$4,556$7,000$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,443 vs $11,934).

How the prices are spread

$949 – $1,222: 7 hospitals$949$1,222 – $1,574: 17 hospitals$1,574 – $2,028: 16 hospitals$1,574$2,028 – $2,612: 19 hospitals$2,612 – $3,365: 22 hospitals$2,612$3,365 – $4,335: 8 hospitals$4,335 – $5,583: 25 hospitals$4,335$5,583 – $7,192: 32 hospitals$7,192 – $9,264: 14 hospitals$7,192$9,264 – $11,934: 23 hospitals$9,264median $4,556price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (183 of 201 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$949$1,2227
$1,222$1,57417
$1,574$2,02816
$2,028$2,61219
$2,612$3,36522
$3,365$4,3358
$4,335$5,58325
$5,583$7,19232
$7,192$9,26414
$9,264$11,93423

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$4,556
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.75×

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 $4,556.

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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,563 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,563Wisconsin: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $3,260 across 18 hospitalsMI$3,260New York: median $7,000 across 21 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 $2,247 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,247Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew 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 $11,934 across 21 hospitalsCA$11,934Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,503 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,503Louisiana: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,556 across 18 hospitalsTX$4,556Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $4,556. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA21$11,934+162%$11,934 – $11,934
New York NY21$7,000+54%$6,048 – $7,027
New Jersey NJ22$6,311+39%$4,881 – $6,553
Texas TX18$4,5560%$4,556 – $4,556
Michigan MI18$3,260−28%$3,260 – $8,140
Iowa IA14$2,247−51%$2,247 – $2,247
Illinois IL10$1,563−66%$685 – $2,198
Oklahoma OK12$1,503−67%$1,503 – $1,503
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not 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
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI1not 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 $4,556.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care182$4,556$1,672 – $7,659
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit21$4,556$685 – $8,913
Government23$3,617$1,590 – $7,000
Non-profit157$4,556$1,942 – $8,140
System affiliation
Part of a system173$4,556$1,676 – $8,140
Independent28$2,407$1,563 – $7,264

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,614
Median cash price$4,556
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

109 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,247 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,005; most fall between $1,503 and $11,934.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 109 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
$1,048$1,590$2,247$6,523$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,048 vs $11,934).

Of the 126 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 109 gave a usable cash price; 16 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

201 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 224 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted201
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code224

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 Other therapeutic ear procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Excis Labyrinth,Transcanal.

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 the inner ear balance organ through the ear canal (CPT 69905) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69905-removal-of-the-inner-ear-balance-organ-through-the-ear-canal