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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system

Keyhole chest surgery to remove lung blebs

CPT 32655the billing code this page is about

Minimally invasive chest surgery through small incisions with a camera to remove air-filled blisters (bullae) from the lung, including any work on the lung lining done at the same time.

Hospitals typically charge $1,975 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 287 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,250. Most fall between $1,301 and $4,352 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
287
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 287 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
$926$1,376$1,975$3,734$6,936

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($926 vs $6,936).

How the prices are spread

$616 – $785: 9 hospitals$616$785 – $1,000: 14 hospitals$1,000 – $1,274: 19 hospitals$1,000$1,274 – $1,623: 46 hospitals$1,623 – $2,068: 45 hospitals$1,623$2,068 – $2,634: 35 hospitals$2,634 – $3,356: 29 hospitals$2,634$3,356 – $4,274: 15 hospitals$4,274 – $5,445: 22 hospitals$4,274$5,445 – $6,936: 25 hospitals$5,445median $1,975price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (259 of 287 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$616$7859
$785$1,00014
$1,000$1,27419
$1,274$1,62346
$1,623$2,06845
$2,068$2,63435
$2,634$3,35629
$3,356$4,27415
$4,274$5,44522
$5,445$6,93625

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,975.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,779 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,779Wisconsin: median $6,936 across 28 hospitalsWI$6,936Michigan: median $1,845 across 31 hospitalsMI$1,845New York: median $1,893 across 22 hospitalsNY$1,893Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,732 across 11 hospitalsOR$1,732Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,326 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,326Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,401 across 13 hospitalsOH$2,401Pennsylvania: median $1,455 across 10 hospitalsPA$1,455New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,558 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,558Louisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,975. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI28$6,936+251%$4,401 – $10,904
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+159%$3,986 – $5,855
Ohio OH13$2,401+22%$1,234 – $4,204
Iowa IA16$2,326+18%$2,326 – $2,326
New York NY22$1,893−4%$901 – $2,902
Michigan MI31$1,845−7%$1,376 – $2,814
Illinois IL15$1,779−10%$1,301 – $3,502
Oregon OR11$1,732−12%$1,732 – $1,742
Oklahoma OK10$1,558−21%$1,558 – $1,558
Pennsylvania PA10$1,455−26%$97 – $3,267
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $1,975.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care219$1,893$1,212 – $4,204
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access60$2,202$1,301 – $6,936
Ownership
For-profit18fewer than 20 hospitals
Government46$2,247$1,073 – $2,990
Non-profit222$1,893$1,301 – $4,401
System affiliation
Part of a system213$1,893$1,301 – $4,401
Independent74$1,990$1,135 – $3,138

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,907
Median cash price$1,975
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

194 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,843 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,955; most fall between $1,056 and $3,138.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 194 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
$656$1,301$1,843$2,814$6,936

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($656 vs $6,936).

Of the 225 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 194 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

287 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 338 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted287
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code338

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR therapeutic procedures on respiratory system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Thoracoscopy W/Resection Bullae W/WO Pleural Px.

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, “Keyhole chest surgery to remove lung blebs (CPT 32655) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-32655-keyhole-chest-surgery-to-remove-lung-blebs