Price Atlas / Surgery rates / Ear wax removal / Washington DC
Ear wax removal in Washington DC Every commercial insurer rate these hospitals posted, as a dollar amount and as a multiple of the hospital's own Medicare base rate.
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CPT 69210 Hospital · insurer Rate × Medicare Plans George Washington Univ Hospital median $171 · local Medicare $70 · file 2026-09-01 Cigna $171 2.4× 2 Medstar Georgetown University Hospital median $227 · local Medicare $70 · file 2026-04-01 CareFirst BCBS $297 4.2× 2 UnitedHealthcare $157 2.2× 4 Inova Alexandria Hospital median $284 · local Medicare $61 · file 2026-04-01 Elevance/Anthem/Empire $157 2.6× 2 Kaiser Permanente $411 6.7× 1 Medstar Washington Hospital Center median $287 · local Medicare $70 · file 2026-04-01 CareFirst BCBS $287 4.1× 2 Cigna $304 4.3× 2 UnitedHealthcare $178 2.5× 4
Questions How much does ear wax removal cost with commercial insurance in Washington DC? 4 Washington DC hospitals post usable commercial rates for CPT 69210, hospital outpatient. The median across hospitals is $256 ; hospital medians range from $171 to $287. Your cost depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance.
Techy Surgeon Price Atlas · commercial rates from hospital price-transparency files as of 2026-09-27. Commercial plans only; payer-specific dollar amounts for the exact code and setting (grade A); no professional-fee, percent-of-charges, per-diem, algorithm or unnamed-payer rows; no duplicate campus files; each rate between 0.5x (outpatient) or 0.6x (inpatient) and 8x the same hospital's local Medicare base rate. Median across each insurer's plans. Historical rates the hospitals themselves posted. Percentiles only where the comparison group has 5 or more hospitals. Market transparency, not pricing guidance. Medicare anchor = the same hospital's local Medicare base rate (OPPS or IPPS FY2026, wage-adjusted; inpatient anchors exclude teaching and safety-net add-ons). Rates are posted contract amounts, not what any patient paid. Method . Free to use; cite as Techy Surgeon Price Atlas (2026).