Surgery and procedures CPT 69433 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Ear tubes, local anesthesia cost in Astoria, OR — inpatient

In Astoria, OR, 1 hospital lists a cash price for ear tube placement (tympanostomy) with local anesthesia, one ear as an inpatient: from $516.00 to $516.00, with a median of $516.00. Across Oregon, the median is $563.08 at 8 hospitals.

Cash prices at 1 facility for code 69433, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 29, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between — and —.

Lowest$516.00Columbia Memorial Hospital

Median$516.00half of hospitals charge less

Highest$516.00in this market

Difference1.0×highest vs lowest

Hospitals, cheapest first

Hospital	Cash price	List price	Insurers pay	Off list
Columbia Memorial Hospital Astoria, OR · (503) 325-4321 69433 Tympanostomy insert vent tube local or topical anes source file	$516.00	$645.00	$31.67–$797.00	20%

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

Check the item The description in the hospital file looks like a supply or device (a catheter, a brace, an implant), not this procedure. The hospital may have filed it under the wrong code: ask before relying on this price.

Inpatient: lowest $516.00, median $516.00, highest $516.00.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $547.88 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At the one hospital here that publishes insurer rates for this code, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated. 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 it is

This code covers placing a small tube in the eardrum while awake, with numbing medicine, usually in older children or adults.

What the price covers

The price covers the procedure and the tube. The office visit may be billed separately.