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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic ear procedures

Unlisted procedure on the inner ear

CPT 69949the billing code this page is about

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

Hospitals typically charge $571 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 201 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $970. Most fall between $242 and $4,881 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
201
States
31
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
$210$273$571$2,447$15,990

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 76× what the cheapest tenth charges ($210 vs $15,990).

How the prices are spread

$151 – $242: 31 hospitals$151$242 – $389: 43 hospitals$389 – $624: 30 hospitals$389$624 – $1,001: 9 hospitals$1,001 – $1,607: 21 hospitals$1,001$1,607 – $2,579: 7 hospitals$2,579 – $4,139: 6 hospitals$2,579$4,139 – $6,644: 17 hospitals$6,644 – $10,663: 4 hospitals$6,644$10,663 – $17,115: 17 hospitals$10,663median $571price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (185 of 201 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$151$24231
$242$38943
$389$62430
$624$1,0019
$1,001$1,60721
$1,607$2,5797
$2,579$4,1396
$4,139$6,64417
$6,644$10,6634
$10,663$17,11517

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$242
Median cash price$571
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.4×

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 $571.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $275 across 22 hospitalsNY$275Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $72 across 16 hospitalsPA$72New Jersey: median $313 across 28 hospitalsNJ$313Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $571 across 30 hospitalsCA$571Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest 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: 2 hospitals 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNCSouth 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 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 $1,477 across 43 hospitalsTX$1,477Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $571. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX43$1,477+159%$210 – $17,115
California CA30$5710%$571 – $590
New Jersey NJ28$313−45%$257 – $5,339
New York NY22$275−52%$275 – $858
Pennsylvania PA16$72−87%$62 – $392
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $571.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care189$571$240 – $5,116
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access8fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit24$683$211 – $17,115
Government24$275$225 – $2,847
Non-profit153$571$257 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system171$571$225 – $5,110
Independent30$857$291 – $2,847

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,172
Median cash price$571
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

107 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $571 and the average of the middle 60% is $647; most fall between $210 and $1,676.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 107 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
$152$210$571$1,477$17,115

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 112× what the cheapest tenth charges ($152 vs $17,115).

Of the 117 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 107 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 4 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 211 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 here6
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code211

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 PR Cochlear Implant Removal C/T 69711.

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 inner ear (CPT 69949) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-69949-unlisted-procedure-on-the-inner-ear