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Procedure price report · Appendectomy

Open removal of a burst appendix with infection

CPT 44960the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to remove an appendix that has ruptured, with an abscess or widespread abdominal infection present.

Hospitals typically charge $1,843 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 511 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,003. Most fall between $1,056 and $3,677 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
511
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 511 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
$823$1,255$1,843$3,007$4,862

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.9× what the cheapest tenth charges ($823 vs $4,862).

How the prices are spread

$401 – $534: 6 hospitals$401$534 – $711: 16 hospitals$711 – $948: 28 hospitals$711$948 – $1,263: 54 hospitals$1,263 – $1,682: 76 hospitals$1,263$1,682 – $2,241: 116 hospitals$2,241 – $2,985: 62 hospitals$2,241$2,985 – $3,976: 34 hospitals$3,976 – $5,297: 54 hospitals$3,976$5,297 – $7,057: 19 hospitals$5,297median $1,843price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (465 of 511 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$401$5346
$534$71116
$711$94828
$948$1,26354
$1,263$1,68276
$1,682$2,241116
$2,241$2,98562
$2,985$3,97634
$3,976$5,29754
$5,297$7,05719

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,843.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,386 across 10 hospitalsME$1,386Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,721 across 18 hospitalsWA$1,721Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $1,652 across 11 hospitalsMT$1,652North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,666 across 28 hospitalsMN$2,666Illinois: median $2,216 across 23 hospitalsIL$2,216Wisconsin: median $4,577 across 36 hospitalsWI$4,577Michigan: median $1,752 across 32 hospitalsMI$1,752New York: median $1,491 across 20 hospitalsNY$1,491Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,222 across 22 hospitalsOR$2,222Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,150 across 40 hospitalsIA$2,150Indiana: median $1,181 across 17 hospitalsIN$1,181Ohio: median $1,364 across 14 hospitalsOH$1,364Pennsylvania: median $346 across 19 hospitalsPA$346New Jersey: median $5,110 across 14 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,831 across 13 hospitalsCA$1,831Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,851 across 11 hospitalsCO$1,851Nebraska: median $1,961 across 11 hospitalsNE$1,961Missouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $990 across 13 hospitalsWV$990Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,530 across 18 hospitalsKS$1,530Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 3 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,843 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,843Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,153 across 11 hospitalsTX$2,153Florida: median $2,910 across 10 hospitalsFL$2,910
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,843. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$5,110+177%$3,986 – $6,311
Wisconsin WI36$4,577+148%$3,387 – $5,000
Florida FL10$2,910+58%$646 – $3,770
Minnesota MN28$2,666+45%$1,630 – $4,124
Oregon OR22$2,222+21%$1,611 – $2,490
Illinois IL23$2,216+20%$964 – $3,380
Texas TX11$2,153+17%$1,351 – $6,102
Iowa IA40$2,150+17%$1,410 – $2,486
Nebraska NE11$1,961+6%$1,499 – $2,414
Colorado CO11$1,8510%$1,326 – $2,215
Oklahoma OK12$1,8430%$1,843 – $1,843
California CA13$1,831−1%$937 – $2,308
Michigan MI32$1,752−5%$1,244 – $1,761
Washington WA18$1,721−7%$1,490 – $3,388
Montana MT11$1,652−10%$1,049 – $2,624
Kansas KS18$1,530−17%$661 – $1,743
New York NY20$1,491−19%$813 – $2,625
Maine ME10$1,386−25%$613 – $2,284
Ohio OH14$1,364−26%$935 – $3,274
Indiana IN17$1,181−36%$964 – $2,033
West Virginia WV13$990−46%$954 – $2,408
Pennsylvania PA19$346−81%$271 – $2,417
Kentucky KY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not 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
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,843.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care269$1,779$955 – $3,770
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access232$1,961$1,222 – $3,651
Ownership
For-profit32$2,104$964 – $4,577
Government131$1,831$1,154 – $3,100
Non-profit347$1,843$1,056 – $3,786
System affiliation
Part of a system339$1,843$967 – $3,770
Independent172$1,903$1,222 – $3,449

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,662
Median cash price$1,843
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

291 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,761 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,753; most fall between $964 and $2,849.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 291 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
$587$1,056$1,761$2,530$4,577

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($587 vs $4,577).

Of the 335 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 291 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 24 a list price only.

How complete is this

511 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 599 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted511
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here48
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 — excluded39
Hospitals that filed this code599

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 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 PR Appendectomy,Rupt Appendx+Abscess.

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 a burst appendix with infection (CPT 44960) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-44960-open-removal-of-a-burst-appendix-with-infection