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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea

Lower eyelid lift

CPT 15820the billing code this page is about

Surgery on the lower eyelid to remove or reshape excess skin and tissue; priced per eyelid operated on.

Hospitals typically charge $2,165 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 489 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,266. Most fall between $925 and $4,230 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
489
States
49
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 489 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
$709$1,099$2,165$3,600$6,924

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($709 vs $6,924).

How the prices are spread

$436 – $585: 14 hospitals$436$585 – $786: 31 hospitals$786 – $1,055: 51 hospitals$786$1,055 – $1,417: 47 hospitals$1,417 – $1,902: 54 hospitals$1,417$1,902 – $2,554: 54 hospitals$2,554 – $3,430: 65 hospitals$2,554$3,430 – $4,605: 71 hospitals$4,605 – $6,184: 18 hospitals$4,605$6,184 – $8,303: 37 hospitals$6,184median $2,165price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (442 of 489 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$436$58514
$585$78631
$786$1,05551
$1,055$1,41747
$1,417$1,90254
$1,902$2,55454
$2,554$3,43065
$3,430$4,60571
$4,605$6,18418
$6,184$8,30337

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,108
Median cash price$2,165
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.03×

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 $2,165.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $883 across 17 hospitalsIL$883Wisconsin: median $1,837 across 31 hospitalsWI$1,837Michigan: median $925 across 25 hospitalsMI$925New York: median $2,449 across 46 hospitalsNY$2,449Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,418 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,418Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,793 across 14 hospitalsOH$1,793Pennsylvania: median $1,502 across 22 hospitalsPA$1,502New Jersey: median $3,113 across 31 hospitalsNJ$3,113Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,562 across 46 hospitalsCA$3,562Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,324 across 12 hospitalsMO$2,324Kentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,310 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,310Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $841 across 14 hospitalsOK$841Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,266 across 22 hospitalsGA$2,266Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,055 across 26 hospitalsTX$3,055Florida: median $3,441 across 10 hospitalsFL$3,441
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,165. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA46$3,562+65%$2,749 – $7,846
Florida FL10$3,441+59%$1,793 – $4,566
New Jersey NJ31$3,113+44%$2,026 – $5,419
Texas TX26$3,055+41%$1,820 – $3,055
New York NY46$2,449+13%$1,480 – $4,595
Missouri MO12$2,324+7%$1,194 – $3,952
Georgia GA22$2,266+5%$2,266 – $6,653
Wisconsin WI31$1,837−15%$1,300 – $3,759
Ohio OH14$1,793−17%$889 – $3,567
Pennsylvania PA22$1,502−31%$328 – $3,742
Iowa IA16$1,418−35%$1,418 – $1,418
West Virginia WV14$1,310−39%$490 – $6,870
Michigan MI25$925−57%$925 – $1,300
Illinois IL17$883−59%$750 – $1,562
Oklahoma OK14$841−61%$841 – $3,895
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,165.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care405$2,266$925 – $4,595
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access73$1,549$783 – $3,055
Ownership
For-profit55$3,020$1,294 – $6,730
Government67$1,836$940 – $2,805
Non-profit366$2,154$925 – $4,218
System affiliation
Part of a system401$2,266$940 – $4,535
Independent88$1,733$889 – $3,600

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,855
Median cash price$2,165
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,867 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,010; most fall between $841 and $3,562.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 268 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
$709$1,053$1,867$3,447$6,653

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($709 vs $6,653).

Of the 297 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 268 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

489 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 540 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted489
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code540

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 therapeutic procedures on eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Blepharoplasty Lower Eyelid.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Lower eyelid lift (CPT 15820) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-15820-lower-eyelid-lift