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Procedure price report · Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures

Surgical removal of the navel

CPT 49250the billing code this page is about

Surgery to cut out the umbilicus and surrounding tissue, billed when done as a procedure by itself.

Hospitals typically charge $1,858 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 528 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,405. Most fall between $1,020 and $4,983 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
528
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 528 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
$772$1,101$1,858$4,372$8,159

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($772 vs $8,159).

How the prices are spread

$603 – $814: 30 hospitals$603$814 – $1,100: 71 hospitals$1,100 – $1,485: 93 hospitals$1,100$1,485 – $2,006: 51 hospitals$2,006 – $2,709: 34 hospitals$2,006$2,709 – $3,659: 50 hospitals$3,659 – $4,942: 67 hospitals$3,659$4,942 – $6,675: 38 hospitals$6,675 – $9,014: 26 hospitals$6,675$9,014 – $12,174: 30 hospitals$9,014median $1,858price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (490 of 528 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$603$81430
$814$1,10071
$1,100$1,48593
$1,485$2,00651
$2,006$2,70934
$2,709$3,65950
$3,659$4,94267
$4,942$6,67538
$6,675$9,01426
$9,014$12,17430

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,658
Median cash price$1,858
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.51×

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 $1,858.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,221 across 15 hospitalsWA$1,221Idaho: median $3,442 across 11 hospitalsID$3,442Montana: 7 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 $3,151 across 15 hospitalsMN$3,151Illinois: median $1,159 across 23 hospitalsIL$1,159Wisconsin: median $3,078 across 37 hospitalsWI$3,078Michigan: median $1,146 across 32 hospitalsMI$1,146New York: median $4,176 across 33 hospitalsNY$4,176Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,302 across 16 hospitalsOR$1,302Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,446 across 26 hospitalsIA$1,446Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,343 across 14 hospitalsOH$2,343Pennsylvania: median $5,966 across 15 hospitalsPA$5,966New Jersey: median $4,627 across 29 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $12,174 across 32 hospitalsCA$12,174Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $928 across 16 hospitalsMO$928Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $655 across 13 hospitalsWV$655Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,247 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,247Louisiana: median $2,364 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,364Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $8,159 across 12 hospitalsGA$8,159Hawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,172 across 26 hospitalsTX$3,172Florida: median $3,542 across 10 hospitalsFL$3,542
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,858. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$12,174+555%$1,644 – $12,174
Georgia GA12$8,159+339%$2,804 – $8,159
Pennsylvania PA15$5,966+221%$1,575 – $6,980
New Jersey NJ29$4,627+149%$3,906 – $5,339
New York NY33$4,176+125%$984 – $4,250
Florida FL10$3,542+91%$2,343 – $6,040
Idaho ID11$3,442+85%$1,476 – $8,630
Texas TX26$3,172+71%$2,670 – $6,650
Minnesota MN15$3,151+70%$860 – $4,372
Wisconsin WI37$3,078+66%$1,020 – $3,742
Louisiana LA11$2,364+27%$1,312 – $5,443
Ohio OH14$2,343+26%$1,237 – $3,370
Iowa IA26$1,446−22%$1,170 – $1,667
Oregon OR16$1,302−30%$1,101 – $1,637
Oklahoma OK13$1,247−33%$1,247 – $4,383
Washington WA15$1,221−34%$1,033 – $2,211
Illinois IL23$1,159−38%$574 – $1,869
Michigan MI32$1,146−38%$1,136 – $3,078
Missouri MO16$928−50%$863 – $4,147
West Virginia WV13$655−65%$640 – $5,923
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $1,858.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care380$2,804$1,092 – $5,741
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access136$1,355$922 – $3,007
Ownership
For-profit45$3,230$999 – $7,786
Government100$1,465$960 – $4,176
Non-profit382$2,211$1,020 – $4,923
System affiliation
Part of a system400$2,670$1,025 – $5,498
Independent128$1,331$940 – $3,370

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,047
Median cash price$1,858
Cash as a share of list, median hospital64%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 36%. 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

286 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,574 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,916; most fall between $940 and $4,158.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 286 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
$665$1,020$1,574$3,239$8,185

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($665 vs $8,185).

Of the 325 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 286 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

528 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 601 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted528
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code601

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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other OR gastrointestinal therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Excision of Umbilicus.

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, “Surgical removal of the navel (CPT 49250) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49250-surgical-removal-of-the-navel