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Keyhole repair of a trapped hernia at an old surgical scar

CPT 49655the billing code this page is about

Laparoscopic repair of an incisional or ventral hernia at a previous incision in which tissue is stuck or its blood supply is pinched.

Hospitals typically charge $2,484 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 192 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,122. Most fall between $1,348 and $9,596 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
192
States
34
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 192 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
$1,246$1,440$2,484$5,624$13,158

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,246 vs $13,158).

How the prices are spread

$970 – $1,369: 35 hospitals$970$1,369 – $1,932: 30 hospitals$1,932 – $2,727: 26 hospitals$1,932$2,727 – $3,848: 19 hospitals$3,848 – $5,430: 12 hospitals$3,848$5,430 – $7,662: 21 hospitals$7,662 – $10,812: 11 hospitals$7,662$10,812 – $15,257: 15 hospitals$15,257 – $21,530: 2 hospitals$15,257$21,530 – $30,382: 4 hospitals$21,530median $2,484price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (175 of 192 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$970$1,36935
$1,369$1,93230
$1,932$2,72726
$2,727$3,84819
$3,848$5,43012
$5,430$7,66221
$7,662$10,81211
$10,812$15,25715
$15,257$21,5302
$21,530$30,3824

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,484.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,009 across 13 hospitalsIL$2,009Wisconsin: median $5,624 across 20 hospitalsWI$5,624Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $1,527 across 11 hospitalsNY$1,527Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: median $2,155 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,155Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,139 across 10 hospitalsIA$2,139Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,412 across 13 hospitalsPA$1,412New Jersey: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital 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 $1,246 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,246Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $9,853 across 18 hospitalsTX$9,853Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,484. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Texas TX18$9,853+297%$9,853 – $12,895
Wisconsin WI20$5,624+126%$3,974 – $5,624
Oregon OR11$2,155−13%$1,762 – $2,926
Iowa IA10$2,139−14%$1,589 – $2,787
Illinois IL13$2,009−19%$1,348 – $5,513
New York NY11$1,527−39%$1,183 – $2,484
Pennsylvania PA13$1,412−43%$1,166 – $1,657
Oklahoma OK10$1,246−50%$1,246 – $1,246
Kansas KS9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $2,484.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care122$2,145$1,348 – $12,895
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access66$3,118$1,840 – $5,624
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government40$2,600$1,508 – $9,596
Non-profit132$2,484$1,348 – $6,819
System affiliation
Part of a system145$2,838$1,348 – $9,853
Independent47$2,351$1,500 – $3,721

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,850
Median cash price$2,484
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

131 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,018 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,742; most fall between $1,348 and $5,624.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 131 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
$1,246$1,348$2,018$5,624$12,895

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,246 vs $12,895).

Of the 147 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 131 gave a usable cash price; 8 carried a plausibility flag, 2 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

192 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 224 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted192
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here16
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 — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code224

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 5, 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, “Keyhole repair of a trapped hernia at an old surgical scar (CPT 49655) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-49655-keyhole-repair-of-a-trapped-hernia-at-an-old-surgical-scar