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Procedure price report · Other hernia repair

First abdominal hernia repair, over 10 cm, trapped bulge

CPT 49596the billing code this page is about

Surgery to close a first-time hernia of the front abdominal wall larger than 10 centimeters across, where the bulging tissue is stuck or its blood supply is pinched.

Hospitals typically charge $2,811 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 659 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,984. Most fall between $1,460 and $11,327 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
659
States
49
Filings dated
Jun 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 659 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
$1,078$1,629$2,811$9,068$23,070

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 21× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,078 vs $23,070).

How the prices are spread

$773 – $1,136: 40 hospitals$773$1,136 – $1,671: 100 hospitals$1,671 – $2,457: 121 hospitals$1,671$2,457 – $3,614: 74 hospitals$3,614 – $5,314: 48 hospitals$3,614$5,314 – $7,815: 71 hospitals$7,815 – $11,494: 43 hospitals$7,815$11,494 – $16,903: 39 hospitals$16,903 – $24,858: 30 hospitals$16,903$24,858 – $36,558: 29 hospitals$24,858median $2,811price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (595 of 659 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$773$1,13640
$1,136$1,671100
$1,671$2,457121
$2,457$3,61474
$3,614$5,31448
$5,314$7,81571
$7,815$11,49443
$11,494$16,90339
$16,903$24,85830
$24,858$36,55829

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,811.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 9 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 $2,040 across 17 hospitalsWA$2,040Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,725 across 31 hospitalsMN$2,725Illinois: median $2,563 across 30 hospitalsIL$2,563Wisconsin: median $5,622 across 34 hospitalsWI$5,622Michigan: median $1,290 across 36 hospitalsMI$1,290New York: median $2,668 across 41 hospitalsNY$2,668Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,390 across 17 hospitalsOR$2,390Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,563 across 32 hospitalsIA$2,563Indiana: median $1,686 across 15 hospitalsIN$1,686Ohio: median $5,340 across 22 hospitalsOH$5,340Pennsylvania: median $9,432 across 22 hospitalsPA$9,432New Jersey: median $4,627 across 22 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,982 across 40 hospitalsCA$1,982Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,010 across 10 hospitalsCO$2,010Nebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $2,200 across 26 hospitalsMO$2,200Kentucky: median $1,686 across 10 hospitalsKY$1,686West Virginia: median $3,038 across 13 hospitalsWV$3,038Virginia: median $10,030 across 12 hospitalsVA$10,030Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $1,579 across 14 hospitalsKS$1,579Arkansas: median $2,302 across 13 hospitalsAR$2,302Tennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,460 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,460Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $6,906 across 10 hospitalsMS$6,906Alabama: median $8,103 across 13 hospitalsAL$8,103Georgia: median $16,385 across 10 hospitalsGA$16,385Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,437 across 17 hospitalsTX$7,437Florida: median $13,283 across 15 hospitalsFL$13,283
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,811. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA10$16,385+483%$16,385 – $17,586
Florida FL15$13,283+373%$5,340 – $22,958
Virginia VA12$10,030+257%$660 – $37,982
Pennsylvania PA22$9,432+236%$1,505 – $14,732
Alabama AL13$8,103+188%$2,825 – $23,385
Texas TX17$7,437+165%$1,794 – $16,114
Mississippi MS10$6,906+146%$3,146 – $12,257
Wisconsin WI34$5,622+100%$5,622 – $11,327
Ohio OH22$5,340+90%$2,297 – $31,048
New Jersey NJ22$4,627+65%$1,272 – $6,298
West Virginia WV13$3,038+8%$1,165 – $20,891
Minnesota MN31$2,725−3%$1,495 – $7,637
New York NY41$2,668−5%$1,150 – $4,595
Iowa IA32$2,563−9%$1,664 – $2,563
Illinois IL30$2,563−9%$1,686 – $13,988
Oregon OR17$2,390−15%$1,877 – $3,426
Arkansas AR13$2,302−18%$1,524 – $9,068
Missouri MO26$2,200−22%$1,629 – $17,614
Washington WA17$2,040−27%$1,821 – $3,815
Colorado CO10$2,010−28%$1,436 – $2,892
California CA40$1,982−29%$1,982 – $3,119
Indiana IN15$1,686−40%$1,083 – $2,047
Kentucky KY10$1,686−40%$1,138 – $1,835
Kansas KS14$1,579−44%$900 – $4,468
Oklahoma OK12$1,460−48%$1,460 – $1,460
Michigan MI36$1,290−54%$1,054 – $5,622
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not 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 $2,811.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care462$3,986$1,460 – $16,156
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access191$2,220$1,468 – $5,622
Ownership
For-profit64$11,672$1,835 – $25,113
Government130$2,459$1,323 – $9,532
Non-profit465$2,681$1,460 – $9,486
System affiliation
Part of a system493$3,160$1,468 – $13,283
Independent166$2,390$1,409 – $6,882

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,700
Median cash price$2,811
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

322 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,982 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,077; most fall between $1,201 and $4,109.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 322 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
$607$1,339$1,982$3,060$6,327

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($607 vs $6,327).

Of the 369 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 322 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 23 a list price only.

How complete is this

659 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 761 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted659
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded49
Hospitals that filed this code761

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 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 > 10 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, over 10 cm, trapped bulge (CPT 49596) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49596-first-abdominal-hernia-repair-over-10-cm-trapped-bulge