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Surgery and procedures CPT 69433 Maine Outpatient

Ear tubes, local anesthesia cost in Maine

In Maine, 6 hospitals publish a cash price for ear tube placement (tympanostomy) with local anesthesia, one ear: from $159.60 to $481.75, with a median of $344.25. The lowest price is at St Mary's Regional Medical Center (Lewiston). The highest price is 3.0× the lowest.

  • The median here, $344.25, is 54% below the US median of $741.60.
  • That is 0.6× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($551.01).
  • Maine ranks 4th of 34 states by median, cheapest first.
  • Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 69433. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 27, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$159.60St Mary's Regional Medical Center
Median$344.25half of hospitals charge less
Highest$481.75in Maine
Lowest saves$184.65vs the median

Hospitals in Maine, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
St Mary's Regional Medical Center lowest Lewiston · Lewiston-Auburn, ME HC PBB TYMPANOSTOMY LOCAL/TOPICAL ANESTHESIA $159.60 $420.00 Apr 1, 2026
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Northern Light AR Gould Hospital Presque Isle · Presque Isle, ME TYMPANOSTOMY W/TUBE INSERT FF $270.69 $1,289.00 Mar 30, 2026
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Penobscot Valley Hospital Lincoln · Bangor, ME TYMPANOSTOMY M&T $313.02 $391.27 Apr 24, 2026
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Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center Bangor · Bangor, ME TYMPANOSTOMY $375.48 $1,788.00 Feb 3, 2026
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Northern Light Mercy Hospital Portland · Portland-South Portland, ME HC TYMPANOSTOMY LOC/TOP ANES $409.76 $1,576.00 Apr 15, 2026
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Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital Ellsworth · Ellsworth, ME Create Eardrum Opening 69433 $481.75 $1,927.00 Mar 30, 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.
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.

By metro area

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

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Bangor, ME 2 $313.02 $344.25
Ellsworth, ME 1 $481.75 $481.75
Lewiston-Auburn, ME 1 $159.60 $159.60
Presque Isle, ME 1 $270.69 $270.69
Portland-South Portland, ME 1 $409.76 $409.76
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 ear tubes, local anesthesia is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Ear tubes, local anesthesia explained.

Ear tube placement (tympanostomy) with local anesthesia, one ear in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.