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Surgery and procedures CPT 69433 South Dakota Outpatient

Ear tubes, local anesthesia cost in South Dakota

In South Dakota, 6 hospitals publish a cash price for ear tube placement (tympanostomy) with local anesthesia, one ear: from $139.50 to $741.60, with a median of $741.60. The lowest price is at Brookings Health System (Brookings). The highest price is 5.3× the lowest.

  • The median here, $741.60, is about the same as the US median of $741.60.
  • That is 1.3× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($551.01).
  • South Dakota ranks 22nd 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 Nov 4, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$139.50Brookings Health System
Median$741.60half of hospitals charge less
Highest$741.60in South Dakota
Lowest saves$602.10vs the median

Hospitals in South Dakota, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Brookings Health System one side lowest Brookings · Brookings, SD Create Eardrum Opening RT $139.50 $279.00 May 18, 2026
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Monument Health Custer Hospital Custer · Rapid City, SD Incision of eardrum with insertion of eardrum tube under local or topical anesthesia $741.60 $927.00 Oct 20, 2026
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Monument Health Lead-Deadwood Hospital Deadwood · Spearfish, SD Incision of eardrum with insertion of eardrum tube under local or topical anesthesia $741.60 $927.00 Oct 20, 2026
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Monument Health Rapid City Hospital Rapid City · Rapid City, SD Incision of eardrum with insertion of eardrum tube under local or topical anesthesia $741.60 $927.00 Oct 22, 2026
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Monument Health Spearfish Hospital Spearfish · Spearfish, SD Incision of eardrum with insertion of eardrum tube under local or topical anesthesia $741.60 $927.00 Oct 20, 2026
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Monument Health Sturgis Hospital Sturgis · Rapid City, SD Incision of eardrum with insertion of eardrum tube under local or topical anesthesia $741.60 $927.00 Oct 21, 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

By metro area

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

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Rapid City, SD 3 $741.60 $741.60
Spearfish, SD 2 $741.60 $741.60
Brookings, SD 1 $139.50 $139.50
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.