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First abdominal wall hernia repair, trapped hernia

CPT 49561the billing code this page is about

Open surgery for a first-time hernia in the front of the abdominal wall, including at an old incision, in which the tissue is stuck outside or its blood supply is cut off.

Hospitals typically charge $2,071 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 250 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,351. Most fall between $1,124 and $4,847 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
250
States
43
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 250 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
$1,046$1,322$2,071$3,704$7,840

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,046 vs $7,840).

How the prices are spread

$544 – $745: 4 hospitals$544$745 – $1,021: 7 hospitals$1,021 – $1,399: 44 hospitals$1,021$1,399 – $1,916: 50 hospitals$1,916 – $2,626: 36 hospitals$1,916$2,626 – $3,599: 27 hospitals$3,599 – $4,931: 26 hospitals$3,599$4,931 – $6,757: 14 hospitals$6,757 – $9,260: 9 hospitals$6,757$9,260 – $12,689: 9 hospitals$9,260median $2,071price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (226 of 250 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$544$7454
$745$1,0217
$1,021$1,39944
$1,399$1,91650
$1,916$2,62636
$2,626$3,59927
$3,599$4,93126
$4,931$6,75714
$6,757$9,2609
$9,260$12,6899

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,071.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,213 across 14 hospitalsIL$2,213Wisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $1,371 across 12 hospitalsNY$1,371Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,474 across 19 hospitalsOR$2,474Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,733 across 18 hospitalsIA$1,733Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $221 across 13 hospitalsPA$221New Jersey: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 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: 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 $1,124 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,124Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $4,847 across 23 hospitalsTX$4,847Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,071. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX23$4,847+134%$4,094 – $6,548
Oregon OR19$2,474+19%$1,585 – $3,122
Illinois IL14$2,213+7%$1,086 – $16,430
Iowa IA18$1,733−16%$1,427 – $2,579
New York NY12$1,371−34%$816 – $1,714
Oklahoma OK10$1,124−46%$1,124 – $1,124
Pennsylvania PA13$221−89%$187 – $1,648
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $2,071.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care135$1,849$1,124 – $7,573
Children’s1fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access113$2,190$1,353 – $3,368
Ownership
For-profit20$1,582$1,086 – $6,548
Government75$2,324$1,495 – $3,684
Non-profit154$1,934$1,124 – $4,847
System affiliation
Part of a system174$2,073$1,124 – $5,953
Independent76$2,058$1,405 – $3,452

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,972
Median cash price$2,071
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

154 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,714 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,205; most fall between $1,090 and $4,847.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 154 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
$920$1,124$1,714$3,993$6,548

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($920 vs $6,548).

Of the 182 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 154 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

250 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 301 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted250
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here29
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded20
Hospitals that filed this code301

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as All Outpatient.

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, “First abdominal wall hernia repair, trapped hernia (CPT 49561) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49561-first-abdominal-wall-hernia-repair-trapped-hernia