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Procedure price report · Nephrectomy, partial or complete

Keyhole removal of a kidney for cancer

CPT 50545the billing code this page is about

Through small abdominal incisions with a camera, the whole kidney is removed along with the surrounding fatty tissue and covering, and possibly nearby lymph nodes or the adrenal gland.

Hospitals typically charge $3,884 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 389 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,584. Most fall between $2,069 and $12,174 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
389
States
47
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 389 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
$1,571$2,235$3,884$7,053$28,014

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,571 vs $28,014).

How the prices are spread

$1,142 – $1,665: 26 hospitals$1,142$1,665 – $2,429: 63 hospitals$2,429 – $3,542: 72 hospitals$2,429$3,542 – $5,166: 40 hospitals$5,166 – $7,535: 75 hospitals$5,166$7,535 – $10,989: 15 hospitals$10,989 – $16,028: 24 hospitals$10,989$16,028 – $23,376: 9 hospitals$23,376 – $34,094: 17 hospitals$23,376$34,094 – $49,726: 10 hospitals$34,094median $3,884price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (351 of 389 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,142$1,66526
$1,665$2,42963
$2,429$3,54272
$3,542$5,16640
$5,166$7,53575
$7,535$10,98915
$10,989$16,02824
$16,028$23,3769
$23,376$34,09417
$34,094$49,72610

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,884.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,630 across 10 hospitalsWA$2,630Idaho: median $14,834 across 10 hospitalsID$14,834Montana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $6,378 across 15 hospitalsMN$6,378Illinois: median $3,854 across 18 hospitalsIL$3,854Wisconsin: median $6,473 across 29 hospitalsWI$6,473Michigan: median $2,623 across 31 hospitalsMI$2,623New York: median $2,224 across 25 hospitalsNY$2,224Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,422 across 11 hospitalsOR$2,422Nevada: 4 hospitals 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 $3,382 across 19 hospitalsIA$3,382Indiana: median $1,865 across 10 hospitalsIN$1,865Ohio: median $6,003 across 19 hospitalsOH$6,003Pennsylvania: median $3,283 across 13 hospitalsPA$3,283New Jersey: median $4,881 across 20 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,401 across 16 hospitalsCA$3,401Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 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 $2,202 across 11 hospitalsOK$2,202Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,884. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Idaho ID10$14,834+282%$6,386 – $14,834
Wisconsin WI29$6,473+67%$6,215 – $13,879
Minnesota MN15$6,378+64%$2,790 – $6,378
Ohio OH19$6,003+55%$2,105 – $31,593
New Jersey NJ20$4,881+26%$2,056 – $6,311
Illinois IL18$3,854−1%$1,865 – $70,762
California CA16$3,401−12%$2,420 – $15,270
Iowa IA19$3,382−13%$3,382 – $4,087
Pennsylvania PA13$3,283−15%$2,156 – $5,660
Washington WA10$2,630−32%$2,422 – $63,204
Michigan MI31$2,623−32%$1,725 – $3,370
Oregon OR11$2,422−38%$658 – $3,866
New York NY25$2,224−43%$1,150 – $3,775
Oklahoma OK11$2,202−43%$2,202 – $2,202
Indiana IN10$1,865−52%$1,571 – $5,558
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $3,884.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care304$3,866$2,056 – $14,306
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access77$4,357$2,329 – $6,749
Ownership
For-profit29$5,763$1,865 – $21,957
Government60$3,658$2,239 – $10,510
Non-profit299$3,972$2,069 – $10,867
System affiliation
Part of a system292$4,241$2,056 – $13,879
Independent97$3,330$2,105 – $6,558

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,246
Median cash price$3,884
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

204 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,584 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,859; most fall between $1,728 and $5,221.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 204 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
$1,346$1,865$2,584$4,074$6,215

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,346 vs $6,215).

Of the 242 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 204 gave a usable cash price; 25 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

389 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 460 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted389
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code460

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 Nephrectomy, partial or complete family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Laparoscopy Radical Nephrectomy.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Keyhole removal of a kidney for cancer (CPT 50545) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-50545-keyhole-removal-of-a-kidney-for-cancer