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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast

Removal of contraceptive implant capsules

CPT 11976the billing code this page is about

Minor procedure to remove birth control capsules that were previously implanted under the skin of the arm.

Hospitals typically charge $550 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,272 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $587. Most fall between $239 and $1,184 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,272
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 24, 2026

Median: half of hospitals filed less, half more — and it is a price some hospital actually filed. Average of the middle 60%: the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain average, the lowest or the highest price: the extremes in hospital price files are chargemaster artefacts, not prices anyone pays.

What hospitals charge, from cheapest to most expensive

Cash price percentiles, outpatient, across 1,272 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$163$268$550$1,005$1,743

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($163 vs $1,743).

How the prices are spread

$108 – $148: 44 hospitals$108$148 – $202: 83 hospitals$202 – $277: 141 hospitals$202$277 – $379: 159 hospitals$379 – $518: 125 hospitals$379$518 – $709: 159 hospitals$709 – $970: 159 hospitals$709$970 – $1,328: 137 hospitals$1,328 – $1,817: 90 hospitals$1,328$1,817 – $2,487: 49 hospitals$1,817median $550price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,146 of 1,272 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$108$14844
$148$20283
$202$277141
$277$379159
$379$518125
$518$709159
$709$970159
$970$1,328137
$1,328$1,81790
$1,817$2,48749

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$550
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.76×

The Medicare figure is the national unadjusted OPPS rate for this code — what Medicare itself pays a hospital before local wage adjustment. It is a benchmark, not a price anyone is charged.

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $550.

Alaska: median $574 across 10 hospitalsAK$574Maine: median $270 across 10 hospitalsME$270Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $321 across 43 hospitalsWA$321Idaho: median $576 across 10 hospitalsID$576Montana: median $269 across 15 hospitalsMT$269North Dakota: median $411 across 11 hospitalsND$411Minnesota: median $473 across 48 hospitalsMN$473Illinois: median $584 across 44 hospitalsIL$584Wisconsin: median $335 across 60 hospitalsWI$335Michigan: median $235 across 50 hospitalsMI$235New York: median $833 across 68 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $804 across 21 hospitalsMA$804Oregon: median $350 across 40 hospitalsOR$350Nevada: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $561 across 12 hospitalsSD$561Iowa: median $357 across 48 hospitalsIA$357Indiana: median $236 across 17 hospitalsIN$236Ohio: median $759 across 66 hospitalsOH$759Pennsylvania: median $786 across 48 hospitalsPA$786New Jersey: median $939 across 39 hospitalsNJ$939Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,307 across 92 hospitalsCA$1,307Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $488 across 19 hospitalsCO$488Nebraska: median $329 across 32 hospitalsNE$329Missouri: median $454 across 31 hospitalsMO$454Kentucky: median $289 across 10 hospitalsKY$289West Virginia: median $814 across 21 hospitalsWV$814Virginia: median $1,185 across 17 hospitalsVA$1,185Maryland: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: median $329 across 10 hospitalsNM$329Kansas: median $236 across 25 hospitalsKS$236Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $319 across 15 hospitalsTN$319North Carolina: median $551 across 26 hospitalsNC$551South Carolina: median $595 across 30 hospitalsSC$595Oklahoma: median $197 across 24 hospitalsOK$197Louisiana: median $376 across 15 hospitalsLA$376Mississippi: median $231 across 11 hospitalsMS$231Alabama: median $691 across 12 hospitalsAL$691Georgia: median $594 across 35 hospitalsGA$594Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $846 across 77 hospitalsTX$846Florida: median $1,063 across 34 hospitalsFL$1,063
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $550. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA92$1,307+138%$523 – $2,268
Virginia VA17$1,185+115%$96 – $1,185
Florida FL34$1,063+93%$292 – $1,743
New Jersey NJ39$939+71%$779 – $4,881
Texas TX77$846+54%$245 – $977
New York NY68$833+51%$264 – $1,523
West Virginia WV21$814+48%$152 – $1,285
Massachusetts MA21$804+46%$602 – $1,201
Pennsylvania PA48$786+43%$70 – $1,092
Ohio OH66$759+38%$564 – $1,372
Alabama AL12$691+26%$593 – $869
South Carolina SC30$595+8%$415 – $1,266
Georgia GA35$594+8%$494 – $594
Illinois IL44$584+6%$260 – $1,030
Idaho ID10$576+5%$319 – $1,783
Alaska AK10$574+4%$290 – $787
South Dakota SD12$561+2%$356 – $923
North Carolina NC26$5510%$390 – $608
Colorado CO19$488−11%$210 – $1,363
Minnesota MN48$473−14%$238 – $1,250
Missouri MO31$454−18%$219 – $804
North Dakota ND11$411−25%$305 – $723
Louisiana LA15$376−32%$259 – $528
Iowa IA48$357−35%$228 – $601
Oregon OR40$350−36%$263 – $1,655
Wisconsin WI60$335−39%$254 – $604
Nebraska NE32$329−40%$252 – $468
New Mexico NM10$329−40%$148 – $837
Washington WA43$321−42%$247 – $971
Tennessee TN15$319−42%$129 – $472
Kentucky KY10$289−48%$145 – $559
Maine ME10$270−51%$163 – $515
Montana MT15$269−51%$136 – $434
Kansas KS25$236−57%$156 – $277
Indiana IN17$236−57%$170 – $618
Michigan MI50$235−57%$82 – $1,026
Mississippi MS11$231−58%$204 – $258
Oklahoma OK24$197−64%$170 – $970
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price

Hospitals like yours

The same distribution cut by the kind of hospital. Hospital type and ownership come from CMS; a hospital counts as part of a system when its price file is shared with at least one other hospital under the same brand. The national median is $550.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care902$692$268 – $1,326
Children’s19fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access346$310$203 – $571
Ownership
For-profit78$594$254 – $1,169
Government265$333$214 – $688
Non-profit924$603$246 – $1,326
System affiliation
Part of a system1,015$602$254 – $1,265
Independent257$321$204 – $787

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$840
Median cash price$550
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. The share is the median of each hospital’s own cash ÷ list ratio, over hospitals that filed both — not the ratio of the two medians above.

The same procedure, inpatient

850 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $595 and the average of the middle 60% is $640; most fall between $254 and $1,314.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 850 hospitals. Each figure is a price a hospital filed. 10th: one in ten hospitals charges less; 25th: a quarter charge less; Median: half charge less; 75th: three quarters charge less; 90th: nine in ten charge less.
10th25thMedian75th90th
$170$292$595$1,101$1,783

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($170 vs $1,783).

Of the 906 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 850 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,272 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (32%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,360 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,272
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here53
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code1,360

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Since our last snapshot: there is no earlier snapshot at least 90 days older than this one yet.

We last checked these hospitals’ price files for changes between September 4, 2026 and September 24, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 24, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other non-OR therapeutic procedures on skin and breast family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Removal of Contraceptive Capsul.

Method

Source
The machine-readable price files every U.S. hospital is required by CMS to publish, parsed per hospital. Nothing is surveyed, sampled or modelled.
What counts
One cash (self-pay) price per hospital for this code and setting. A hospital’s own filing can rule its number out — a placeholder, a “not applicable” note, a list price standing in for cash — and our plausibility checks can flag a price far below what every other hospital files. Both kinds are disclosed above and excluded from the statistics; on the compare tool a flagged price is still shown.
Statistics
Percentiles are discrete: each is a price some hospital filed. The average is the mean of the prices between the 20th and 80th percentiles. We never publish the plain mean, the minimum or the maximum. A state needs 10 hospitals and a segment 20 to show a figure; otherwise the row shows its count and no number. Medicare is the national unadjusted OPPS rate where one exists.
Names
Procedure names on these pages are our own plain-language titles, not the AMA’s copyrighted CPT descriptors. The code is the identity.

The full rules — sources, statistics, thresholds, limitations — are on the methodology page.

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Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Removal of contraceptive implant capsules (CPT 11976) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-11976-removal-of-contraceptive-implant-capsules