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Procedure price report · Other hernia repair

First abdominal hernia repair, under 3 cm, trapped bulge

CPT 49592the billing code this page is about

Surgery to close a first-time hernia of the front abdominal wall under 3 centimeters across, where the bulging tissue is stuck or its blood supply is pinched. Covers any surgical approach.

Hospitals typically charge $3,140 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,068 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,387. Most fall between $872 and $11,010 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,068
States
50
Filings dated
Jan 2024 – 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 1,068 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
$674$997$3,140$9,382$16,384

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 24× what the cheapest tenth charges ($674 vs $16,384).

How the prices are spread

$490 – $715: 87 hospitals$490$715 – $1,042: 148 hospitals$1,042 – $1,518: 131 hospitals$1,042$1,518 – $2,213: 59 hospitals$2,213 – $3,226: 65 hospitals$2,213$3,226 – $4,702: 50 hospitals$4,702 – $6,855: 111 hospitals$4,702$6,855 – $9,992: 125 hospitals$9,992 – $14,565: 115 hospitals$9,992$14,565 – $21,231: 80 hospitals$14,565median $3,140price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (971 of 1,068 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$490$71587
$715$1,042148
$1,042$1,518131
$1,518$2,21359
$2,213$3,22665
$3,226$4,70250
$4,702$6,855111
$6,855$9,992125
$9,992$14,565115
$14,565$21,23180

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$3,140
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 $3,140.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,040 across 11 hospitalsME$1,040Vermont: median $1,024 across 11 hospitalsVT$1,024New Hampshire: median $851 across 11 hospitalsNH$851Washington: median $1,526 across 30 hospitalsWA$1,526Idaho: median $9,000 across 19 hospitalsID$9,000Montana: median $787 across 14 hospitalsMT$787North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,458 across 46 hospitalsMN$1,458Illinois: median $1,470 across 45 hospitalsIL$1,470Wisconsin: median $2,850 across 41 hospitalsWI$2,850Michigan: median $974 across 46 hospitalsMI$974New York: median $6,904 across 62 hospitalsNY$6,904Massachusetts: median $1,684 across 14 hospitalsMA$1,684Oregon: median $1,343 across 25 hospitalsOR$1,343Nevada: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,190 across 50 hospitalsIA$1,190Indiana: median $6,364 across 34 hospitalsIN$6,364Ohio: median $12,324 across 40 hospitalsOH$12,324Pennsylvania: median $9,864 across 32 hospitalsPA$9,864New Jersey: median $6,458 across 35 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: 8 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 $11,010 across 52 hospitalsCA$11,010Utah: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $1,283 across 15 hospitalsCO$1,283Nebraska: median $1,173 across 21 hospitalsNE$1,173Missouri: median $6,025 across 38 hospitalsMO$6,025Kentucky: median $930 across 17 hospitalsKY$930West Virginia: median $4,672 across 23 hospitalsWV$4,672Virginia: median $13,339 across 20 hospitalsVA$13,339Maryland: 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 $7,419 across 12 hospitalsAZ$7,419New Mexico: median $7,810 across 12 hospitalsNM$7,810Kansas: median $1,202 across 36 hospitalsKS$1,202Arkansas: median $4,261 across 23 hospitalsAR$4,261Tennessee: median $5,759 across 19 hospitalsTN$5,759North Carolina: median $2,909 across 11 hospitalsNC$2,909South Carolina: median $9,382 across 10 hospitalsSC$9,382Oklahoma: median $680 across 17 hospitalsOK$680Louisiana: median $5,025 across 13 hospitalsLA$5,025Mississippi: median $4,427 across 18 hospitalsMS$4,427Alabama: median $5,395 across 14 hospitalsAL$5,395Georgia: median $11,000 across 20 hospitalsGA$11,000Hawaii: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,089 across 32 hospitalsTX$7,089Florida: median $6,690 across 20 hospitalsFL$6,690
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,140. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Virginia VA20$13,339+325%$1,109 – $15,557
Ohio OH40$12,324+292%$1,067 – $23,055
California CA52$11,010+251%$1,267 – $11,010
Georgia GA20$11,000+250%$1,085 – $13,791
Pennsylvania PA32$9,864+214%$5,728 – $11,934
South Carolina SC10$9,382+199%$7,837 – $21,414
Idaho ID19$9,000+187%$933 – $15,131
New Mexico NM12$7,810+149%$1,308 – $19,176
Arizona AZ12$7,419+136%$683 – $17,090
Texas TX32$7,089+126%$1,942 – $13,291
New York NY62$6,904+120%$842 – $9,188
Florida FL20$6,690+113%$903 – $14,956
New Jersey NJ35$6,458+106%$4,881 – $7,331
Indiana IN34$6,364+103%$855 – $16,015
Missouri MO38$6,025+92%$787 – $12,554
Tennessee TN19$5,759+83%$741 – $8,118
Alabama AL14$5,395+72%$1,311 – $16,093
Louisiana LA13$5,025+60%$3,072 – $7,710
West Virginia WV23$4,672+49%$1,186 – $8,648
Mississippi MS18$4,427+41%$1,367 – $13,085
Arkansas AR23$4,261+36%$794 – $6,565
North Carolina NC11$2,909−7%$1,290 – $10,951
Wisconsin WI41$2,850−9%$1,302 – $7,237
Massachusetts MA14$1,684−46%$1,684 – $9,571
Washington WA30$1,526−51%$1,085 – $8,061
Illinois IL45$1,470−53%$855 – $7,883
Minnesota MN46$1,458−54%$757 – $3,608
Oregon OR25$1,343−57%$872 – $1,593
Colorado CO15$1,283−59%$889 – $6,918
Kansas KS36$1,202−62%$752 – $4,654
Iowa IA50$1,190−62%$940 – $1,759
Nebraska NE21$1,173−63%$664 – $3,683
Maine ME11$1,040−67%$711 – $1,428
Vermont VT11$1,024−67%$628 – $1,970
Michigan MI46$974−69%$490 – $8,313
Kentucky KY17$930−70%$730 – $10,306
New Hampshire NH11$851−73%$533 – $2,112
Montana MT14$787−75%$533 – $2,273
Oklahoma OK17$680−78%$680 – $11,895
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT5not 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 $3,140.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care706$6,311$974 – $13,441
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access351$1,367$789 – $4,808
Ownership
For-profit126$8,492$2,164 – $16,306
Government232$1,524$879 – $7,791
Non-profit708$2,867$847 – $10,998
System affiliation
Part of a system788$4,808$927 – $11,781
Independent280$1,439$825 – $7,791

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,722
Median cash price$3,140
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

466 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,190 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,717; most fall between $670 and $6,458.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 466 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
$417$741$1,190$3,935$11,010

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 26× what the cheapest tenth charges ($417 vs $11,010).

Of the 529 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 466 gave a usable cash price; 29 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 34 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,068 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (27%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,186 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,068
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here70
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded10
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded38
Hospitals that filed this code1,186

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 Other hernia repair family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rpr Aa Hernia 1st < 3 Cm Ncrc8/Strangulated.

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 hernia repair, under 3 cm, trapped bulge (CPT 49592) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49592-first-abdominal-hernia-repair-under-3-cm-trapped-bulge