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Procedure price report · Laparoscopy

Laparoscopic placement of tunneled abdominal catheter

CPT 49324the billing code this page is about

Keyhole surgery to place a long-term catheter that is tunneled under the skin into the abdominal cavity, used for dialysis, drug instillation, or fluid drainage.

Hospitals typically charge $3,849 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 662 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,400. Most fall between $798 and $10,910 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
662
States
48
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 662 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
$572$912$3,849$8,478$15,131

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($572 vs $15,131).

How the prices are spread

$392 – $579: 38 hospitals$392$579 – $854: 87 hospitals$854 – $1,261: 53 hospitals$854$1,261 – $1,862: 59 hospitals$1,862 – $2,750: 31 hospitals$1,862$2,750 – $4,060: 36 hospitals$4,060 – $5,995: 44 hospitals$4,060$5,995 – $8,851: 122 hospitals$8,851 – $13,069: 74 hospitals$8,851$13,069 – $19,297: 53 hospitals$13,069median $3,849price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (597 of 662 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$392$57938
$579$85487
$854$1,26153
$1,261$1,86259
$1,862$2,75031
$2,750$4,06036
$4,060$5,99544
$5,995$8,851122
$8,851$13,06974
$13,069$19,29753

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$3,849
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.62×

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 $3,849.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,434 across 16 hospitalsWA$1,434Idaho: median $11,565 across 10 hospitalsID$11,565Montana: 8 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 $1,947 across 28 hospitalsMN$1,947Illinois: median $954 across 28 hospitalsIL$954Wisconsin: median $2,408 across 30 hospitalsWI$2,408Michigan: median $1,590 across 33 hospitalsMI$1,590New York: median $3,067 across 41 hospitalsNY$3,067Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $709 across 10 hospitalsOR$709Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $954 across 24 hospitalsIA$954Indiana: median $7,044 across 17 hospitalsIN$7,044Ohio: median $6,350 across 29 hospitalsOH$6,350Pennsylvania: median $4,043 across 29 hospitalsPA$4,043New Jersey: median $6,458 across 32 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $7,306 across 54 hospitalsCA$7,306Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $887 across 15 hospitalsNE$887Missouri: median $3,539 across 20 hospitalsMO$3,539Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $980 across 16 hospitalsWV$980Virginia: median $11,948 across 12 hospitalsVA$11,948Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $3,253 across 11 hospitalsAR$3,253Tennessee: median $4,960 across 11 hospitalsTN$4,960North Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $813 across 14 hospitalsOK$813Louisiana: median $5,130 across 10 hospitalsLA$5,130Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $16,385 across 11 hospitalsGA$16,385Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,238 across 36 hospitalsTX$7,238Florida: median $10,373 across 13 hospitalsFL$10,373
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,849. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA11$16,385+326%$7,136 – $16,385
Virginia VA12$11,948+210%$260 – $14,725
Idaho ID10$11,565+200%$4,100 – $15,131
Florida FL13$10,373+170%$1,643 – $13,298
California CA54$7,306+90%$1,113 – $12,594
Texas TX36$7,238+88%$6,043 – $9,389
Indiana IN17$7,044+83%$1,061 – $14,206
New Jersey NJ32$6,458+68%$5,110 – $7,785
Ohio OH29$6,350+65%$485 – $19,297
Louisiana LA10$5,130+33%$2,046 – $9,505
Tennessee TN11$4,960+29%$368 – $7,975
Pennsylvania PA29$4,043+5%$196 – $11,022
Missouri MO20$3,539−8%$590 – $8,625
Arkansas AR11$3,253−15%$2,125 – $6,513
New York NY41$3,067−20%$758 – $6,904
Wisconsin WI30$2,408−37%$1,798 – $3,396
Minnesota MN28$1,947−49%$691 – $4,264
Michigan MI33$1,590−59%$666 – $8,313
Washington WA16$1,434−63%$790 – $10,896
West Virginia WV16$980−75%$430 – $5,460
Iowa IA24$954−75%$729 – $1,780
Illinois IL28$954−75%$308 – $21,195
Nebraska NE15$887−77%$572 – $3,849
Oklahoma OK14$813−79%$813 – $11,895
Oregon OR10$709−82%$709 – $946
Alabama AL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $3,849.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care538$5,691$835 – $12,114
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access110$1,174$600 – $2,408
Ownership
For-profit70$7,737$1,311 – $13,986
Government89$1,780$781 – $8,505
Non-profit501$3,539$780 – $10,962
System affiliation
Part of a system523$4,971$813 – $11,948
Independent139$1,311$750 – $8,022

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,179
Median cash price$3,849
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

333 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,096 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,140; most fall between $511 and $7,238.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 333 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
$260$634$1,096$6,895$12,594

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 48× what the cheapest tenth charges ($260 vs $12,594).

Of the 370 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 333 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 14 a list price only.

How complete is this

662 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (17%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 742 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted662
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 — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code742

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 Laparoscopy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Laps Insertion Tunneled Intraperitoneal Catheter.

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, “Laparoscopic placement of tunneled abdominal catheter (CPT 49324) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49324-laparoscopic-placement-of-tunneled-abdominal-catheter