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Repeat Mastoid Surgery Behind the Ear

Delaware rates for HCPCS 69601

Reopens the honeycomb bone behind the ear after an earlier mastoid operation and clears out infection or disease that has persisted or returned, leaving that air-cell area fully opened out. The wall of the ear canal and the eardrum structures are kept in place. It is done for ongoing drainage, infection, or disease found on follow-up.

Rates data updated October 2026.

How much does Repeat Mastoid Surgery Behind the Ear cost?

$1,413

Typical negotiated rate. In Delaware, October 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,413 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,096 from a physician practice, and about $2,692 from a hospital or other facility.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 3 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Prices by location type

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,096$977 to $1,413
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,692$1,698 to $4,074

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,692 · 10th to 90th $1,380 to $5,754Professionalmedian $1,096 · 10th to 90th $912 to $1,862
$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $2,692professional $1,096

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,096.48
Median
$7,244.36
Typical High
$7,585.78
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$933.25
Median
$1,096.48
Typical High
$2,511.89
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,380.38
Median
$3,801.89
Typical High
$5,888.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$891.25
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,862.09
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$1,412.54
Median
$2,398.83
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
None
Typical Low
$851.14
Median
$1,174.90
Typical High
$1,862.09

Where Delaware sits

The same service costs 7.2 times more in Oklahoma than in Utah. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Delaware· 32nd of 51

$1,413

OK $4,677UT $646

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.