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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx

Unlisted ear, nose or throat procedure

CPT 92700the billing code this page is about

Used when an ear, nose, or throat service has no specific billing code of its own; the record must describe what was actually done.

Hospitals typically charge $78 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 587 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $84. Most fall between $34 and $178 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
587
States
49
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 25, 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 587 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
$26$40$78$149$342

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $342).

How the prices are spread

$17 – $24: 20 hospitals$17$24 – $33: 58 hospitals$33 – $45: 59 hospitals$33$45 – $61: 78 hospitals$61 – $83: 64 hospitals$61$83 – $114: 75 hospitals$114 – $156: 82 hospitals$114$156 – $214: 28 hospitals$214 – $293: 27 hospitals$214$293 – $401: 38 hospitals$293median $78price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (529 of 587 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$17$2420
$24$3358
$33$4559
$45$6178
$61$8364
$83$11475
$114$15682
$156$21428
$214$29327
$293$40138

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$30
Median cash price$78
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.6×

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 $78.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 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: median $109 across 11 hospitalsWA$109Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $83 across 20 hospitalsMN$83Illinois: median $52 across 17 hospitalsIL$52Wisconsin: median $54 across 27 hospitalsWI$54Michigan: median $40 across 15 hospitalsMI$40New York: median $30 across 30 hospitalsNY$30Massachusetts: median $75 across 18 hospitalsMA$75Oregon: median $60 across 10 hospitalsOR$60Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: median $96 across 34 hospitalsIN$96Ohio: median $117 across 35 hospitalsOH$117Pennsylvania: median $65 across 35 hospitalsPA$65New Jersey: median $29 across 16 hospitalsNJ$29Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $80 across 54 hospitalsCA$80Utah: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $39 across 12 hospitalsCO$39Nebraska: median $40 across 10 hospitalsNE$40Missouri: median $75 across 11 hospitalsMO$75Kentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $153 across 10 hospitalsVA$153Maryland: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $150 across 16 hospitalsNC$150South Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $67 across 10 hospitalsGA$67Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $144 across 49 hospitalsTX$144Florida: median $193 across 23 hospitalsFL$193
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $78. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL23$193+147%$30 – $207
Virginia VA10$153+96%$87 – $153
North Carolina NC16$150+92%$103 – $150
Texas TX49$144+84%$75 – $344
Ohio OH35$117+50%$42 – $117
Washington WA11$109+40%$49 – $196
Indiana IN34$96+23%$62 – $390
Minnesota MN20$83+6%$55 – $259
California CA54$80+2%$54 – $125
Missouri MO11$75−3%$43 – $88
Massachusetts MA18$75−4%$45 – $110
Georgia GA10$67−14%$28 – $304
Pennsylvania PA35$65−16%$33 – $349
Oregon OR10$60−23%$60 – $414
Wisconsin WI27$54−31%$14 – $149
Illinois IL17$52−33%$39 – $122
Nebraska NE10$40−48%$15 – $109
Michigan MI15$40−49%$28 – $55
Colorado CO12$39−50%$22 – $85
New York NY30$30−62%$29 – $54
New Jersey NJ16$29−63%$27 – $37
Iowa IA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $78.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care481$72$32 – $153
Children’s32$161$85 – $433
Critical access71$91$48 – $196
Ownership
For-profit43$101$34 – $295
Government81$69$29 – $150
Non-profit460$78$34 – $193
System affiliation
Part of a system499$83$35 – $193
Independent88$52$32 – $132

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$143
Median cash price$78
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

426 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $91 and the average of the middle 60% is $99; most fall between $43 and $199.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 426 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
$26$52$91$159$344

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($26 vs $344).

Of the 440 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 426 gave a usable cash price; 2 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

587 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 621 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted587
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded26
Hospitals that filed this code621

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 25, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 25, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Diagnostic procedures on nose, mouth and pharynx family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Unlisted Ent Code,Cs.

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 ear, nose or throat procedure (CPT 92700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-92700-unlisted-ear-nose-or-throat-procedure