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Procedure price report · Cholecystectomy and common duct exploration

Open gallbladder removal with bile duct X-ray

CPT 47605the billing code this page is about

Removal of the gallbladder through an open abdominal incision, with dye X-ray imaging of the bile ducts during surgery.

Hospitals typically charge $2,458 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 463 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,555. Most fall between $1,391 and $4,739 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
463
States
46
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 463 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
$1,000$1,522$2,458$3,968$5,564

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,000 vs $5,564).

How the prices are spread

$541 – $705: 9 hospitals$541$705 – $919: 8 hospitals$919 – $1,197: 30 hospitals$919$1,197 – $1,559: 48 hospitals$1,559 – $2,031: 61 hospitals$1,559$2,031 – $2,646: 70 hospitals$2,646 – $3,448: 79 hospitals$2,646$3,448 – $4,492: 39 hospitals$4,492 – $5,851: 53 hospitals$4,492$5,851 – $7,623: 21 hospitals$5,851median $2,458price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (418 of 463 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$541$7059
$705$9198
$919$1,19730
$1,197$1,55948
$1,559$2,03161
$2,031$2,64670
$2,646$3,44879
$3,448$4,49239
$4,492$5,85153
$5,851$7,62321

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,458.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 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 $2,360 across 15 hospitalsWA$2,360Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,425 across 22 hospitalsMN$3,425Illinois: median $2,758 across 29 hospitalsIL$2,758Wisconsin: median $5,031 across 32 hospitalsWI$5,031Michigan: median $1,830 across 30 hospitalsMI$1,830New York: median $1,918 across 24 hospitalsNY$1,918Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $3,082 across 17 hospitalsOR$3,082Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,758 across 36 hospitalsIA$2,758Indiana: median $1,391 across 14 hospitalsIN$1,391Ohio: median $1,556 across 14 hospitalsOH$1,556Pennsylvania: median $365 across 17 hospitalsPA$365New 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 $2,247 across 15 hospitalsCA$2,247Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,549 across 13 hospitalsNE$2,549Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,271 across 14 hospitalsWV$1,271Virginia: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,612 across 13 hospitalsKS$1,612Arkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 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 $2,369 across 10 hospitalsOK$2,369Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 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 $3,075 across 11 hospitalsTX$3,075Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,458. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ14$5,110+108%$3,986 – $6,311
Wisconsin WI32$5,031+105%$4,236 – $7,481
Minnesota MN22$3,425+39%$1,740 – $5,517
Oregon OR17$3,082+25%$2,071 – $3,218
Texas TX11$3,075+25%$2,337 – $4,837
Iowa IA36$2,758+12%$1,979 – $2,768
Illinois IL29$2,758+12%$1,157 – $5,304
Nebraska NE13$2,549+4%$1,688 – $3,374
Oklahoma OK10$2,369−4%$2,369 – $2,369
Washington WA15$2,360−4%$1,953 – $3,965
California CA15$2,247−9%$937 – $3,212
New York NY24$1,918−22%$1,000 – $3,372
Michigan MI30$1,830−26%$1,598 – $2,479
Kansas KS13$1,612−34%$749 – $2,079
Ohio OH14$1,556−37%$1,085 – $4,362
Indiana IN14$1,391−43%$417 – $2,796
West Virginia WV14$1,271−48%$1,226 – $3,089
Pennsylvania PA17$365−85%$286 – $3,105
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $2,458.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care270$2,369$1,269 – $4,350
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access185$2,557$1,400 – $4,898
Ownership
For-profit32$2,369$1,391 – $5,100
Government110$2,557$1,362 – $4,288
Non-profit320$2,369$1,391 – $4,742
System affiliation
Part of a system326$2,418$1,391 – $4,805
Independent137$2,462$1,415 – $4,222

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,384
Median cash price$2,458
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

268 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,120 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,167; most fall between $1,196 and $3,422.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 268 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
$645$1,387$2,120$3,042$5,031

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($645 vs $5,031).

Of the 305 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 268 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 17 a list price only.

How complete is this

463 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 539 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted463
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
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 — excluded29
Hospitals that filed this code539

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 W/Cholangiography.

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 with bile duct X-ray (CPT 47605) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-47605-open-gallbladder-removal-with-bile-duct-x-ray