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Surgery and procedures CPT 31256 Minnesota Outpatient

Sinus surgery, maxillary cost in Minnesota

In Minnesota, 7 hospitals publish a cash price for endoscopic sinus surgery: opening the maxillary (cheek) sinus: from $272.00 to $8,667.28, with a median of $1,470.07. The lowest price is at Community Memorial Hospital (Cloquet). The highest price is 31.9× the lowest.

  • The median here, $1,470.07, is 67% below the US median of $4,453.50.
  • Minnesota has the lowest median of 26 states with at least 5 hospitals pricing this code.
  • Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Minnesota law (Minn. Stat. §144.589): a hospital may not charge an uninsured patient whose household income is under $125,000 more than the lowest amount it would be paid for the same service by a private insurer, counting the insured patient's share. If the cash price below is higher, ask the billing office to apply this limit. Each hospital's page here shows the range of insurer rates in its own file (the "Insurers pay" column), a starting point when you ask. Other states' laws.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 31256. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Oct 25, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$272.00Community Memorial Hospital
Median$1,470.07half of hospitals charge less
Highest$8,667.28in Minnesota
Lowest saves$1,198.07vs the median

Hospitals in Minnesota, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Community Memorial Hospital lowest Cloquet · Duluth, MN-WI ENT-ENDOSC MAXILLARY SINUS $272.00 $425.00 Apr 1, 2026
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Stevens Community Medical Center Morris · Morris, MN Incision of nasal sinus using an endoscope $654.00 $872.00 Jun 26, 2026
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Glacial Ridge Hospital Glenwood · Glenwood, MN Incision of nasal sinus using an endoscope $926.52 $1,103.00 Oct 21, 2026
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Fairview Maple Grove Surgery Center Maple Grove · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI HC NASAL SCOPY,OPEN MAXILL SINUS $1,470.07 $3,666.00 May 18, 2026
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Methodist Hospital St. Louis Park · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Nasl/Sinus Endo Surg W/Max Antrost; $2,820.48 $10,848.00 Mar 31, 2026
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M Health Fairview University of Mn Medical Center Minneapolis · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI HC NASAL SCOPY,OPEN MAXILL SINUS $6,415.00 $15,997.50 Feb 6, 2026
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Maple Grove Hospital Maple Grove · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Nasal/Sinus Endoscopy W/Maxillary Antrostomy $8,667.28 $16,446.45 Sep 25, 2026
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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
File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 4 $1,470.07 $4,617.74
Duluth, MN-WI 1 $272.00 $272.00
Glenwood, MN 1 $926.52 $926.52
Morris, MN 1 $654.00 $654.00
Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.
Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.
Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.
Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

What sinus surgery, maxillary is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Sinus surgery, maxillary explained.

Endoscopic sinus surgery: opening the maxillary (cheek) sinus in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.