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Procedure price report · Procedures on spleen

Repair of a ruptured spleen

CPT 38115the billing code this page is about

Surgery to repair a torn or ruptured spleen, which may include removing part of the spleen.

Hospitals typically charge $3,037 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 216 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,200. Most fall between $1,824 and $5,078 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
216
States
42
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 216 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
$1,431$2,008$3,037$4,987$5,980

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,431 vs $5,980).

How the prices are spread

$937 – $1,143: 4 hospitals$937$1,143 – $1,396: 7 hospitals$1,396 – $1,704: 19 hospitals$1,396$1,704 – $2,080: 18 hospitals$2,080 – $2,539: 29 hospitals$2,080$2,539 – $3,100: 22 hospitals$3,100 – $3,784: 32 hospitals$3,100$3,784 – $4,620: 18 hospitals$4,620 – $5,640: 23 hospitals$4,620$5,640 – $6,885: 24 hospitals$5,640median $3,037price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (196 of 216 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$937$1,1434
$1,143$1,3967
$1,396$1,70419
$1,704$2,08018
$2,080$2,53929
$2,539$3,10022
$3,100$3,78432
$3,784$4,62018
$4,620$5,64023
$5,640$6,88524

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,037.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,553 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,553Wisconsin: median $5,078 across 21 hospitalsWI$5,078Michigan: median $2,447 across 15 hospitalsMI$2,447New York: median $2,079 across 10 hospitalsNY$2,079Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,698 across 12 hospitalsOR$2,698Nevada: 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $3,138 across 17 hospitalsIA$3,138Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,987 across 11 hospitalsOH$4,987Pennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 3 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 $2,122 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,122Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,037. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+68%$4,270 – $5,855
Wisconsin WI21$5,078+67%$5,078 – $5,980
Ohio OH11$4,987+64%$2,008 – $5,689
Iowa IA17$3,138+3%$2,578 – $3,138
Oregon OR12$2,698−11%$2,364 – $3,037
Michigan MI15$2,447−19%$1,717 – $3,682
Oklahoma OK10$2,122−30%$2,122 – $2,122
New York NY10$2,079−32%$1,130 – $3,860
Illinois IL10$1,553−49%$1,485 – $2,979
California CA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not 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 $3,037.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care152$3,138$1,824 – $5,087
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access56$2,937$1,693 – $5,078
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government37$2,648$1,890 – $3,682
Non-profit162$3,138$1,824 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system163$3,138$1,824 – $5,078
Independent53$2,699$1,467 – $4,218

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,923
Median cash price$3,037
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

150 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,660 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,639; most fall between $1,553 and $4,301.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 150 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
$1,335$1,834$2,660$3,903$5,078

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,335 vs $5,078).

Of the 179 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 150 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 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

216 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 265 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted216
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code265

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 Procedures on spleen family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rpr Rptd Spleen Splenorrhaphy W/WO Prtl Splenect.

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, “Repair of a ruptured spleen (CPT 38115) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38115-repair-of-a-ruptured-spleen