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Procedure price report · Lobectomy or pneumonectomy

Keyhole chest surgery to remove a wedge of lung, first one

CPT 32666the billing code this page is about

Minimally invasive chest surgery through small incisions with a camera to cut out a wedge-shaped piece of lung as treatment; covers the first such removal on one side.

Hospitals typically charge $2,029 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 331 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,544. Most fall between $1,163 and $4,850 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
331
States
44
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 331 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
$638$1,252$2,029$4,574$7,557

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($638 vs $7,557).

How the prices are spread

$299 – $429: 18 hospitals$299$429 – $615: 12 hospitals$615 – $881: 14 hospitals$615$881 – $1,264: 41 hospitals$1,264 – $1,812: 71 hospitals$1,264$1,812 – $2,599: 48 hospitals$2,599 – $3,727: 16 hospitals$2,599$3,727 – $5,344: 61 hospitals$5,344 – $7,664: 18 hospitals$5,344$7,664 – $10,989: 14 hospitals$7,664median $2,029price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (313 of 331 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$299$42918
$429$61512
$615$88114
$881$1,26441
$1,264$1,81271
$1,812$2,59948
$2,599$3,72716
$3,727$5,34461
$5,344$7,66418
$7,664$10,98914

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,029.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth 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 $1,616 across 15 hospitalsIL$1,616Wisconsin: median $4,574 across 27 hospitalsWI$4,574Michigan: median $1,562 across 29 hospitalsMI$1,562New York: median $1,771 across 24 hospitalsNY$1,771Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,576 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,576Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,116 across 17 hospitalsIA$2,116Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,798 across 12 hospitalsOH$2,798Pennsylvania: median $629 across 17 hospitalsPA$629New Jersey: median $4,350 across 21 hospitalsNJ$4,350Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,850 across 32 hospitalsCA$4,850Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals 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: 5 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $1,416 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,416Louisiana: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,029. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$4,850+139%$1,933 – $4,850
Wisconsin WI27$4,574+125%$4,004 – $7,557
New Jersey NJ21$4,350+114%$2,429 – $5,741
Ohio OH12$2,798+38%$1,332 – $3,770
Iowa IA17$2,116+4%$2,116 – $2,116
New York NY24$1,771−13%$1,033 – $2,673
Illinois IL15$1,616−20%$1,203 – $69,108
Oregon OR10$1,576−22%$1,576 – $1,585
Michigan MI29$1,562−23%$1,149 – $1,670
Oklahoma OK10$1,416−30%$1,416 – $1,416
Pennsylvania PA17$629−69%$532 – $2,573
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $2,029.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care270$2,029$1,150 – $4,850
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access53$2,116$1,053 – $4,574
Ownership
For-profit20$1,686$1,252 – $4,646
Government44$1,811$950 – $4,722
Non-profit266$2,061$1,196 – $4,850
System affiliation
Part of a system268$2,116$1,196 – $4,850
Independent63$1,811$1,021 – $2,898

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,645
Median cash price$2,029
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

219 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,686 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,123; most fall between $983 and $4,574.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 219 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
$579$1,150$1,686$3,408$4,850

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($579 vs $4,850).

Of the 245 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 219 gave a usable cash price; 17 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

331 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 388 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted331
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
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 — excluded15
Hospitals that filed this code388

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 Lobectomy or pneumonectomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Thoracoscopy W/Thera Wedge Resexn Initial Unilat.

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, “Keyhole chest surgery to remove a wedge of lung, first one (CPT 32666) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-32666-keyhole-chest-surgery-to-remove-a-wedge-of-lung-first-one