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Procedure price report · Inguinal and femoral hernia repair

Inguinal hernia repair, age 5 or older, first repair

CPT 49505the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to fix a first-time groin hernia in a patient age 5 or older, where the bulging tissue can still be pushed back into place.

Hospitals typically charge $3,551 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,399 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,899. Most fall between $1,091 and $8,994 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,399
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,399 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
$749$1,261$3,551$7,843$14,182

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($749 vs $14,182).

How the prices are spread

$594 – $839: 105 hospitals$594$839 – $1,185: 143 hospitals$1,185 – $1,673: 165 hospitals$1,185$1,673 – $2,362: 98 hospitals$2,362 – $3,335: 106 hospitals$2,362$3,335 – $4,710: 155 hospitals$4,710 – $6,651: 133 hospitals$4,710$6,651 – $9,392: 159 hospitals$9,392 – $13,262: 113 hospitals$9,392$13,262 – $18,726: 88 hospitals$13,262median $3,551price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,265 of 1,399 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$594$839105
$839$1,185143
$1,185$1,673165
$1,673$2,36298
$2,362$3,335106
$3,335$4,710155
$4,710$6,651133
$6,651$9,392159
$9,392$13,262113
$13,262$18,72688

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,658
Median cash price$3,551
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.97×

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 $3,551.

Alaska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,261 across 11 hospitalsME$1,261Vermont: median $1,056 across 12 hospitalsVT$1,056New Hampshire: median $902 across 13 hospitalsNH$902Washington: median $1,938 across 41 hospitalsWA$1,938Idaho: median $3,172 across 20 hospitalsID$3,172Montana: median $1,109 across 16 hospitalsMT$1,109North Dakota: median $1,450 across 12 hospitalsND$1,450Minnesota: median $1,742 across 54 hospitalsMN$1,742Illinois: median $2,464 across 53 hospitalsIL$2,464Wisconsin: median $2,706 across 42 hospitalsWI$2,706Michigan: median $1,391 across 46 hospitalsMI$1,391New York: median $4,176 across 72 hospitalsNY$4,176Massachusetts: median $5,575 across 12 hospitalsMA$5,575Oregon: median $1,530 across 32 hospitalsOR$1,530Nevada: median $3,894 across 10 hospitalsNV$3,894Wyoming: 8 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 $1,280 across 67 hospitalsIA$1,280Indiana: median $3,769 across 34 hospitalsIN$3,769Ohio: median $10,552 across 60 hospitalsOH$10,552Pennsylvania: median $3,158 across 44 hospitalsPA$3,158New Jersey: median $4,435 across 38 hospitalsNJ$4,435Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $7,389 across 93 hospitalsCA$7,389Utah: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $3,187 across 27 hospitalsCO$3,187Nebraska: median $1,826 across 45 hospitalsNE$1,826Missouri: median $6,141 across 49 hospitalsMO$6,141Kentucky: median $995 across 16 hospitalsKY$995West Virginia: median $3,423 across 23 hospitalsWV$3,423Virginia: median $10,778 across 23 hospitalsVA$10,778Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,394 across 14 hospitalsAZ$4,394New Mexico: median $4,572 across 15 hospitalsNM$4,572Kansas: median $1,297 across 47 hospitalsKS$1,297Arkansas: median $3,051 across 22 hospitalsAR$3,051Tennessee: median $4,477 across 20 hospitalsTN$4,477North Carolina: median $3,406 across 19 hospitalsNC$3,406South Carolina: median $3,079 across 13 hospitalsSC$3,079Oklahoma: median $727 across 20 hospitalsOK$727Louisiana: median $4,154 across 20 hospitalsLA$4,154Mississippi: median $3,687 across 18 hospitalsMS$3,687Alabama: median $3,717 across 18 hospitalsAL$3,717Georgia: median $4,732 across 27 hospitalsGA$4,732Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,211 across 89 hospitalsTX$6,211Florida: median $8,497 across 41 hospitalsFL$8,497
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,551. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA23$10,778+204%$5,250 – $14,842
Ohio OH60$10,552+197%$1,052 – $16,065
Florida FL41$8,497+139%$2,070 – $23,320
California CA93$7,389+108%$1,979 – $18,726
Texas TX89$6,211+75%$2,864 – $8,365
Missouri MO49$6,141+73%$1,301 – $12,111
Massachusetts MA12$5,575+57%$2,078 – $12,177
Georgia GA27$4,732+33%$1,200 – $8,241
New Mexico NM15$4,572+29%$972 – $10,576
Tennessee TN20$4,477+26%$540 – $6,138
New Jersey NJ38$4,435+25%$3,906 – $5,419
Arizona AZ14$4,394+24%$810 – $22,988
New York NY72$4,176+18%$1,047 – $4,595
Louisiana LA20$4,154+17%$1,921 – $9,369
Nevada NV10$3,894+10%$1,872 – $5,997
Indiana IN34$3,769+6%$616 – $9,334
Alabama AL18$3,717+5%$1,465 – $12,730
Mississippi MS18$3,687+4%$1,271 – $10,012
West Virginia WV23$3,423−4%$742 – $8,062
North Carolina NC19$3,406−4%$1,530 – $11,700
Colorado CO27$3,187−10%$914 – $10,323
Idaho ID20$3,172−11%$1,038 – $8,630
Pennsylvania PA44$3,158−11%$236 – $8,450
South Carolina SC13$3,079−13%$1,926 – $16,108
Arkansas AR22$3,051−14%$1,013 – $5,611
Wisconsin WI42$2,706−24%$2,035 – $5,020
Illinois IL53$2,464−31%$980 – $6,703
Washington WA41$1,938−45%$1,048 – $7,965
Nebraska NE45$1,826−49%$1,024 – $6,944
Minnesota MN54$1,742−51%$999 – $2,866
Oregon OR32$1,530−57%$969 – $9,015
North Dakota ND12$1,450−59%$942 – $5,920
Michigan MI46$1,391−61%$1,004 – $6,370
Kansas KS47$1,297−63%$750 – $5,052
Iowa IA67$1,280−64%$1,113 – $2,244
Maine ME11$1,261−64%$435 – $1,562
Montana MT16$1,109−69%$777 – $4,888
Vermont VT12$1,056−70%$399 – $2,099
Kentucky KY16$995−72%$616 – $3,912
New Hampshire NH13$902−75%$737 – $2,075
Oklahoma OK20$727−80%$727 – $7,905
Alaska AK9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $3,551.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care914$4,709$1,292 – $10,554
Children’s17fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access466$1,515$910 – $4,923
Ownership
For-profit155$6,211$1,926 – $14,550
Government299$1,721$1,003 – $5,310
Non-profit943$3,849$1,130 – $9,334
System affiliation
Part of a system1,057$4,176$1,200 – $10,181
Independent342$1,721$882 – $5,596

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,751
Median cash price$3,551
Cash as a share of list, median hospital65%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 35%. 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

682 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,075 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,866; most fall between $749 and $7,670.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 682 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
$479$916$2,075$6,702$10,323

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($479 vs $10,323).

Of the 768 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 682 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 1 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 53 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,399 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (35%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,543 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,399
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here72
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded61
Hospitals that filed this code1,543

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 Inguinal and femoral hernia repair family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rpr 1st Ingun Hrna Age 5 Yrs/> Reducible.

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, “Inguinal hernia repair, age 5 or older, first repair (CPT 49505) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49505-inguinal-hernia-repair-age-5-or-older-first-repair