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Procedure price report · Cholecystectomy and common duct exploration

Open gallbladder removal

CPT 47600the billing code this page is about

Removal of the gallbladder through a single open abdominal incision.

Hospitals typically charge $2,278 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 593 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,548. Most fall between $1,338 and $5,074 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
593
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 593 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
$900$1,498$2,278$4,350$7,962

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($900 vs $7,962).

How the prices are spread

$488 – $695: 14 hospitals$488$695 – $989: 22 hospitals$989 – $1,408: 69 hospitals$989$1,408 – $2,004: 113 hospitals$2,004 – $2,852: 121 hospitals$2,004$2,852 – $4,060: 67 hospitals$4,060 – $5,779: 77 hospitals$4,060$5,779 – $8,226: 22 hospitals$8,226 – $11,708: 18 hospitals$8,226$11,708 – $16,665: 12 hospitals$11,708median $2,278price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (535 of 593 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$488$69514
$695$98922
$989$1,40869
$1,408$2,004113
$2,004$2,852121
$2,852$4,06067
$4,060$5,77977
$5,779$8,22622
$8,226$11,70818
$11,708$16,66512

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,278.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,198 across 10 hospitalsME$1,198Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,168 across 17 hospitalsWA$2,168Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $2,016 across 11 hospitalsMT$2,016North Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,035 across 27 hospitalsMN$3,035Illinois: median $3,115 across 32 hospitalsIL$3,115Wisconsin: median $5,037 across 35 hospitalsWI$5,037Michigan: median $2,082 across 34 hospitalsMI$2,082New York: median $1,751 across 27 hospitalsNY$1,751Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,926 across 22 hospitalsOR$2,926Nevada: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 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 $2,622 across 41 hospitalsIA$2,622Indiana: median $1,338 across 13 hospitalsIN$1,338Ohio: median $1,664 across 15 hospitalsOH$1,664Pennsylvania: median $1,928 across 17 hospitalsPA$1,928New Jersey: median $5,339 across 15 hospitalsNJ$5,339Connecticut: 7 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 $1,894 across 18 hospitalsCA$1,894Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,258 across 12 hospitalsCO$2,258Nebraska: median $2,447 across 17 hospitalsNE$2,447Missouri: median $1,674 across 13 hospitalsMO$1,674Kentucky: median $1,564 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,564West Virginia: median $1,206 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,206Virginia: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,604 across 24 hospitalsKS$1,604Arkansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 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 $1,492 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,492Louisiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $21,252 across 12 hospitalsGA$21,252Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,638 across 16 hospitalsTX$4,638Florida: median $1,218 across 10 hospitalsFL$1,218
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,278. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA12$21,252+833%$3,780 – $21,252
New Jersey NJ15$5,339+134%$3,986 – $6,311
Wisconsin WI35$5,037+121%$2,808 – $5,504
Texas TX16$4,638+104%$2,627 – $12,597
Illinois IL32$3,115+37%$1,338 – $5,441
Minnesota MN27$3,035+33%$1,719 – $5,074
Oregon OR22$2,926+28%$1,969 – $3,557
Iowa IA41$2,622+15%$1,709 – $2,965
Nebraska NE17$2,447+7%$2,081 – $3,378
Colorado CO12$2,258−1%$1,808 – $2,785
Washington WA17$2,168−5%$1,934 – $2,993
Michigan MI34$2,082−9%$1,498 – $2,157
Montana MT11$2,016−11%$1,199 – $3,239
Pennsylvania PA17$1,928−15%$1,287 – $4,255
California CA18$1,894−17%$937 – $3,057
New York NY27$1,751−23%$887 – $2,643
Missouri MO13$1,674−27%$1,529 – $2,295
Ohio OH15$1,664−27%$1,279 – $4,343
Kansas KS24$1,604−30%$737 – $2,430
Kentucky KY10$1,564−31%$1,093 – $1,908
Oklahoma OK12$1,492−34%$1,492 – $1,492
Indiana IN13$1,338−41%$426 – $2,289
Florida FL10$1,218−47%$505 – $4,545
West Virginia WV14$1,206−47%$1,162 – $2,881
Maine ME10$1,198−47%$565 – $2,921
Arkansas AR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $2,278.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care334$2,210$1,338 – $5,504
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access250$2,295$1,360 – $4,585
Ownership
For-profit38$3,235$1,338 – $22,351
Government152$2,295$1,540 – $4,620
Non-profit402$2,157$1,338 – $5,074
System affiliation
Part of a system407$2,295$1,338 – $5,339
Independent186$2,259$1,315 – $4,488

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,278
Median cash price$2,278
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

330 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,969 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,114; most fall between $1,170 and $3,780.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 330 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
$560$1,338$1,969$3,223$5,700

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($560 vs $5,700).

Of the 391 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 330 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 31 a list price only.

How complete is this

593 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 705 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted593
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here63
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded45
Hospitals that filed this code705

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 Cholecystectomy and common duct exploration family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cholecystectomy.

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, “Open gallbladder removal (CPT 47600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47600-open-gallbladder-removal