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Surgery and procedures CPT 69209 Outpatient

Ear irrigation cost in Providence, RI

In Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, 10 hospitals list a cash price for earwax removal by irrigation (rinsing), one ear: from $66.00 to $322.86, with a median of $183.50. The lowest listed price is at Landmark Medical Center — $117.50 less than the median here. Across Rhode Island, the median is $179.83 at 6 hospitals.

  • The median here, $183.50, is 73% above the US median of $105.95.
  • That is 3.0× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($60.27).
  • 5 of 10 hospitals list a cash price equal to their full list price, with no self-pay discount.

Cash prices at 10 facilities across 7 cities for code 69209, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Dec 15, 2025 and Sep 1, 2026.

Lowest$66.00Landmark Medical Center
Median$183.50half of hospitals charge less
Highest$322.86in this market
Difference4.9×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA.

median
Lowest $66.00Highest $322.86

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Landmark Medical Center lowest Woonsocket, RI · (401) 769-4100 Hc Remove Impacted Ear Wax Uni File of Sep 1, 2026 · source file $66.00 $279.70 $55.80–$279.70 76%
Kent County Memorial Hospital one side Warwick, RI · (401) 737-7010 HC Removal Impacted Cerumen Irrigation/Lvg Unilat File of Feb 28, 2026 · source file $104.65 $299.00 $13.80–$1,464.78 65%
Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island one side Providence, RI · (401) 274-1100 HC Removal Impacted Cerumen Irrigation/Lvg Unilat File of Feb 28, 2026 · source file $104.65 $299.00 $13.80–$1,566.17 65%
Southcoast Hospitals Group - St. Luke's Hospital one side St. New Bedford, MA HC Removal Impacted Cerumen Using Irrigation/Lavage- Unilateral+1 more line at this price File of Dec 15, 2025 · source file $112.00 $224.00 $47.89–$1,790.00 50%
Southcoast Hospitals Group one side Fall River, MA · (508) 679-3131 HC Removal Impacted Cerumen Using Irrigation/Lavage- Unilateral+1 more line at this price File of Dec 15, 2025 · source file $112.00 $224.00 $47.89–$1,790.00 50%
Newport Hospital Newport, RI · (401) 846-6400 HC REM IMPACT CERUMEN W IRRIGATION/LAVAGE UNI File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $255.00 $255.00 — —
Rhode Island Hospital Providence, RI · (401) 444-4000 HC REM IMPACT CERUMEN W IRRIGATION/LAVAGE UNI File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $255.00 $255.00 — —
The Miriam Hospital Providence, RI · (401) 793-2500 HC REM IMPACT CERUMEN W IRRIGATION/LAVAGE UNI File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $255.00 $255.00 — —
Brown University Health Morton Hospital Taunton, MA · (508) 828-7000 HC REM IMPACT CERUMEN W IRRIGATION/LAVAGE UNI File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $266.35 $266.35 — —
Saint Anne's Hospital Fall River, MA · (508) 674-5600 HC REM IMPACT CERUMEN W IRRIGATION/LAVAGE UNI File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $322.86 $322.86 — —
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.
At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More
No cash discount This line's cash price equals the hospital's full list price. Many hospitals still reduce bills for uninsured patients: ask the billing office for its self-pay discount in writing. More

Outpatient: lowest $66.00, median $183.50, highest $322.86 — a 4.9× difference within the same market.

As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 5 facilities here, median $255.00. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.

Cash or insurance?

At 5 of 5 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What ear irrigation is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Ear irrigation explained.

1 row held back from this comparison

It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 69209 ($101.50). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.

HospitalCash priceFile
South County Health Wakefield, RIRemoval impacted cerumen using irrigation/lavage, unilateral $0.94 file
File Link to the hospital's own price file.