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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract

Removal of a urachal cyst, with or without hernia repair

CPT 51500the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out a cyst or sinus left over from a fetal structure between the bladder and navel; the same charge applies whether or not a belly-button hernia is repaired at the same time.

Hospitals typically charge $2,873 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 429 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,394. Most fall between $1,198 and $6,904 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
429
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 429 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
$898$1,338$2,873$6,458$11,099

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($898 vs $11,099).

How the prices are spread

$617 – $845: 20 hospitals$617$845 – $1,157: 32 hospitals$1,157 – $1,585: 75 hospitals$1,157$1,585 – $2,171: 47 hospitals$2,171 – $2,974: 28 hospitals$2,171$2,974 – $4,074: 38 hospitals$4,074 – $5,580: 37 hospitals$4,074$5,580 – $7,644: 64 hospitals$7,644 – $10,470: 20 hospitals$7,644$10,470 – $14,342: 30 hospitals$10,470median $2,873price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (391 of 429 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$617$84520
$845$1,15732
$1,157$1,58575
$1,585$2,17147
$2,171$2,97428
$2,974$4,07438
$4,074$5,58037
$5,580$7,64464
$7,644$10,47020
$10,470$14,34230

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$2,873
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.47×

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 $2,873.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital 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: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $4,901 across 17 hospitalsMN$4,901Illinois: median $1,348 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,348Wisconsin: median $3,208 across 23 hospitalsWI$3,208Michigan: median $1,484 across 27 hospitalsMI$1,484New York: median $5,019 across 31 hospitalsNY$5,019Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 3 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 $1,606 across 21 hospitalsIA$1,606Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,873 across 10 hospitalsOH$2,873Pennsylvania: median $1,198 across 21 hospitalsPA$1,198New Jersey: median $6,458 across 32 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $14,342 across 28 hospitalsCA$14,342Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $952 across 14 hospitalsWV$952Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,338 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,338Louisiana: median $2,496 across 11 hospitalsLA$2,496Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $6,083 across 22 hospitalsTX$6,083Florida: median $2,344 across 10 hospitalsFL$2,344
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,873. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA28$14,342+399%$1,782 – $14,342
New Jersey NJ32$6,458+125%$5,110 – $7,786
Texas TX22$6,083+112%$5,574 – $6,621
New York NY31$5,019+75%$1,295 – $6,904
Minnesota MN17$4,901+71%$1,750 – $4,901
Wisconsin WI23$3,208+12%$3,208 – $3,252
Ohio OH10$2,8730%$1,235 – $2,873
Louisiana LA11$2,496−13%$2,038 – $3,758
Florida FL10$2,344−18%$1,161 – $2,873
Iowa IA21$1,606−44%$1,451 – $1,793
Michigan MI27$1,484−48%$1,484 – $4,562
Illinois IL14$1,348−53%$1,126 – $2,977
Oklahoma OK12$1,338−53%$1,338 – $1,338
Pennsylvania PA21$1,198−58%$413 – $9,864
West Virginia WV14$952−67%$661 – $1,768
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not 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 $2,873.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care324$3,208$1,295 – $7,010
Children’s12fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access92$1,793$1,054 – $4,526
Ownership
For-profit39$4,562$1,348 – $9,389
Government64$1,833$1,125 – $6,793
Non-profit325$2,977$1,174 – $6,871
System affiliation
Part of a system341$3,208$1,338 – $6,904
Independent88$1,693$1,075 – $5,395

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,967
Median cash price$2,873
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

232 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,000 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,923; most fall between $1,295 and $9,060.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 232 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
$1,060$1,338$2,000$6,621$14,342

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,060 vs $14,342).

Of the 265 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 232 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 16 a list price only.

How complete is this

429 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 474 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted429
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code474

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 OR therapeutic procedures of urinary tract family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Exc Urachal Cyst/Sinus W/WO Umbilical Hernia Rpr.

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, “Removal of a urachal cyst, with or without hernia repair (CPT 51500) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-51500-removal-of-a-urachal-cyst-with-or-without-hernia-repair