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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures, hemic and lymphatic system

Removal of surface lymph nodes from the groin

CPT 38760the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove the shallow lymph nodes of the groin and upper thigh, done as a procedure on its own.

Hospitals typically charge $2,607 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 430 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,772. Most fall between $1,380 and $7,717 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
430
States
47
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 430 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
$995$1,454$2,607$7,535$11,312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($995 vs $11,312).

How the prices are spread

$696 – $955: 20 hospitals$696$955 – $1,310: 33 hospitals$1,310 – $1,797: 67 hospitals$1,310$1,797 – $2,465: 60 hospitals$2,465 – $3,381: 28 hospitals$2,465$3,381 – $4,638: 31 hospitals$4,638 – $6,363: 38 hospitals$4,638$6,363 – $8,730: 68 hospitals$8,730 – $11,976: 36 hospitals$8,730$11,976 – $16,430: 7 hospitals$11,976median $2,607price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (388 of 430 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$696$95520
$955$1,31033
$1,310$1,79767
$1,797$2,46560
$2,465$3,38128
$3,381$4,63831
$4,638$6,36338
$6,363$8,73068
$8,730$11,97636
$11,976$16,4307

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,784
Median cash price$2,607
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.38×

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 $2,607.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,916 across 20 hospitalsIL$1,916Wisconsin: median $3,958 across 10 hospitalsWI$3,958Michigan: median $1,454 across 27 hospitalsMI$1,454New York: median $6,514 across 29 hospitalsNY$6,514Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,993 across 15 hospitalsOR$1,993Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,062 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,062Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,113 across 14 hospitalsOH$3,113Pennsylvania: median $1,563 across 20 hospitalsPA$1,563New Jersey: median $7,218 across 31 hospitalsNJ$7,218Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,535 across 44 hospitalsCA$7,535Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $906 across 13 hospitalsWV$906Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 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 $1,380 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,380Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,350 across 24 hospitalsTX$6,350Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,607. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA44$7,535+189%$2,389 – $11,312
New Jersey NJ31$7,218+177%$5,110 – $8,702
New York NY29$6,514+150%$1,605 – $7,717
Texas TX24$6,350+144%$6,300 – $7,707
Wisconsin WI10$3,958+52%$3,958 – $5,088
Ohio OH14$3,113+19%$1,366 – $3,798
Iowa IA18$2,062−21%$1,726 – $2,062
Oregon OR15$1,993−24%$1,538 – $1,993
Illinois IL20$1,916−27%$1,034 – $2,607
Pennsylvania PA20$1,563−40%$519 – $11,025
Michigan MI27$1,454−44%$1,454 – $8,328
Oklahoma OK14$1,380−47%$1,380 – $13,296
West Virginia WV13$906−65%$900 – $2,368
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $2,607.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care337$3,986$1,423 – $8,289
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access85$1,937$1,215 – $3,230
Ownership
For-profit37$3,677$1,034 – $9,579
Government79$2,380$1,454 – $6,138
Non-profit313$3,365$1,380 – $7,882
System affiliation
Part of a system333$3,958$1,380 – $8,289
Independent97$1,937$1,366 – $4,145

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,907
Median cash price$2,607
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

239 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,166 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,240; most fall between $1,219 and $7,535.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 239 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
$891$1,380$2,166$7,535$11,312

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($891 vs $11,312).

Of the 262 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 239 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 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

430 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 477 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted430
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code477

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, hemic and lymphatic system family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Inguinofem Lmphadec Supfc W/Cloquets Node Spx.

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 surface lymph nodes from the groin (CPT 38760) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-38760-removal-of-surface-lymph-nodes-from-the-groin