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Procedure price report · Appendectomy

Open removal of the appendix

CPT 44950the billing code this page is about

Surgery through an abdominal incision to take out the appendix.

Hospitals typically charge $1,798 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 726 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,556. Most fall between $1,009 and $6,569 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
726
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 726 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
$711$1,145$1,798$5,719$10,549

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($711 vs $10,549).

How the prices are spread

$568 – $786: 46 hospitals$568$786 – $1,088: 83 hospitals$1,088 – $1,507: 135 hospitals$1,088$1,507 – $2,085: 99 hospitals$2,085 – $2,886: 46 hospitals$2,085$2,886 – $3,995: 52 hospitals$3,995 – $5,530: 34 hospitals$3,995$5,530 – $7,654: 92 hospitals$7,654 – $10,594: 31 hospitals$7,654$10,594 – $14,664: 38 hospitals$10,594median $1,798price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (656 of 726 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$568$78646
$786$1,08883
$1,088$1,507135
$1,507$2,08599
$2,085$2,88646
$2,886$3,99552
$3,995$5,53034
$5,530$7,65492
$7,654$10,59431
$10,594$14,66438

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,614
Median cash price$1,798
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.27×

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 $1,798.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $806 across 10 hospitalsNH$806Washington: median $1,546 across 25 hospitalsWA$1,546Idaho: median $2,524 across 12 hospitalsID$2,524Montana: median $982 across 10 hospitalsMT$982North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,825 across 32 hospitalsMN$1,825Illinois: median $1,692 across 31 hospitalsIL$1,692Wisconsin: median $3,374 across 38 hospitalsWI$3,374Michigan: median $1,476 across 34 hospitalsMI$1,476New York: median $1,920 across 39 hospitalsNY$1,920Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,757 across 26 hospitalsOR$1,757Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,577 across 45 hospitalsIA$1,577Indiana: median $851 across 18 hospitalsIN$851Ohio: median $1,149 across 18 hospitalsOH$1,149Pennsylvania: median $4,138 across 23 hospitalsPA$4,138New Jersey: median $6,907 across 31 hospitalsNJ$6,907Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $5,824 across 49 hospitalsCA$5,824Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,361 across 12 hospitalsCO$1,361Nebraska: median $1,453 across 17 hospitalsNE$1,453Missouri: median $967 across 12 hospitalsMO$967Kentucky: median $1,034 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,034West Virginia: median $1,236 across 16 hospitalsWV$1,236Virginia: 7 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,231 across 25 hospitalsKS$1,231Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,350 across 18 hospitalsOK$1,350Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,787 across 32 hospitalsTX$5,787Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,798. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ31$6,907+284%$5,339 – $8,326
California CA49$5,824+224%$1,670 – $10,886
Texas TX32$5,787+222%$3,325 – $6,842
Pennsylvania PA23$4,138+130%$416 – $11,758
Wisconsin WI38$3,374+88%$2,238 – $3,543
Idaho ID12$2,524+40%$1,268 – $14,664
New York NY39$1,920+7%$950 – $7,384
Minnesota MN32$1,825+2%$1,061 – $3,397
Oregon OR26$1,757−2%$1,180 – $2,473
Illinois IL31$1,692−6%$1,208 – $4,569
Iowa IA45$1,577−12%$1,202 – $1,900
Washington WA25$1,546−14%$1,180 – $5,199
Michigan MI34$1,476−18%$1,232 – $8,902
Nebraska NE17$1,453−19%$1,110 – $2,212
Colorado CO12$1,361−24%$975 – $2,455
Oklahoma OK18$1,350−25%$1,350 – $4,312
West Virginia WV16$1,236−31%$699 – $4,933
Kansas KS25$1,231−32%$822 – $1,698
Ohio OH18$1,149−36%$706 – $2,756
Kentucky KY10$1,034−43%$657 – $1,245
Montana MT10$982−45%$275 – $1,942
Missouri MO12$967−46%$966 – $1,785
Indiana IN18$851−53%$741 – $1,718
New Hampshire NH10$806−55%$668 – $1,495
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,798.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care432$2,554$1,027 – $7,585
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access285$1,576$1,009 – $3,543
Ownership
For-profit61$5,682$1,294 – $16,642
Government184$1,701$1,027 – $5,669
Non-profit479$1,737$968 – $5,824
System affiliation
Part of a system520$2,183$1,065 – $7,041
Independent206$1,500$947 – $3,733

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,227
Median cash price$1,798
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

378 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,542 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,141; most fall between $830 and $5,787.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 378 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
$639$960$1,542$4,830$10,886

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($639 vs $10,886).

Of the 436 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 378 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 29 a list price only.

How complete is this

726 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 814 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted726
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here60
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded28
Hospitals that filed this code814

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 Appendectomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Appendectomy.

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, “Open removal of the appendix (CPT 44950) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44950-open-removal-of-the-appendix