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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Laser vaporization of the prostate

CPT 52648the billing code this page is about

A laser is used through a scope in the urethra to vaporize obstructing prostate tissue, including control of bleeding and related steps at the same session.

Hospitals typically charge $5,832 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 635 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,217. Most fall between $2,082 and $12,010 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
635
States
48
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 635 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
$1,223$2,651$5,832$9,750$17,638

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,223 vs $17,638).

How the prices are spread

$1,112 – $1,494: 53 hospitals$1,112$1,494 – $2,008: 33 hospitals$2,008 – $2,699: 43 hospitals$2,008$2,699 – $3,628: 38 hospitals$3,628 – $4,877: 65 hospitals$3,628$4,877 – $6,555: 86 hospitals$6,555 – $8,811: 66 hospitals$6,555$8,811 – $11,843: 90 hospitals$11,843 – $15,919: 59 hospitals$11,843$15,919 – $21,397: 40 hospitals$15,919median $5,832price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (573 of 635 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,112$1,49453
$1,494$2,00833
$2,008$2,69943
$2,699$3,62838
$3,628$4,87765
$4,877$6,55586
$6,555$8,81166
$8,811$11,84390
$11,843$15,91959
$15,919$21,39740

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$5,832
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.06×

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 $5,832.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $1,100 across 10 hospitalsME$1,100Vermont: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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 $8,342 across 21 hospitalsMN$8,342Illinois: median $4,373 across 27 hospitalsIL$4,373Wisconsin: median $9,578 across 35 hospitalsWI$9,578Michigan: median $2,726 across 34 hospitalsMI$2,726New York: median $6,016 across 49 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,453 across 18 hospitalsOR$2,453Nevada: 6 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 $4,120 across 30 hospitalsIA$4,120Indiana: median $5,043 across 15 hospitalsIN$5,043Ohio: median $12,763 across 35 hospitalsOH$12,763Pennsylvania: median $7,894 across 17 hospitalsPA$7,894New Jersey: median $5,632 across 33 hospitalsNJ$5,632Connecticut: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $9,539 across 52 hospitalsCA$9,539Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $8,355 across 12 hospitalsMO$8,355Kentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,922 across 18 hospitalsWV$1,922Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: median $3,656 across 11 hospitalsAR$3,656Tennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,146 across 15 hospitalsOK$1,146Louisiana: median $4,331 across 13 hospitalsLA$4,331Mississippi: median $4,706 across 10 hospitalsMS$4,706Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $7,631 across 31 hospitalsTX$7,631Florida: median $13,101 across 15 hospitalsFL$13,101
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,832. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL15$13,101+125%$3,159 – $18,240
Ohio OH35$12,763+119%$2,651 – $18,088
Wisconsin WI35$9,578+64%$3,963 – $9,583
California CA52$9,539+64%$9,402 – $19,494
Missouri MO12$8,355+43%$4,332 – $16,165
Minnesota MN21$8,342+43%$2,552 – $13,296
Pennsylvania PA17$7,894+35%$3,937 – $10,399
Texas TX31$7,631+31%$5,359 – $10,505
New York NY49$6,016+3%$4,946 – $9,188
New Jersey NJ33$5,632−3%$5,110 – $6,783
Indiana IN15$5,043−14%$2,058 – $8,709
Mississippi MS10$4,706−19%$4,160 – $8,941
Illinois IL27$4,373−25%$2,461 – $21,193
Louisiana LA13$4,331−26%$1,667 – $7,408
Iowa IA30$4,120−29%$3,493 – $4,937
Arkansas AR11$3,656−37%$2,649 – $3,736
Michigan MI34$2,726−53%$1,122 – $7,373
Oregon OR18$2,453−58%$1,268 – $5,546
West Virginia WV18$1,922−67%$724 – $6,736
Oklahoma OK15$1,146−80%$1,146 – $10,364
Maine ME10$1,100−81%$863 – $1,618
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not 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 $5,832.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care494$6,228$2,461 – $13,168
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access136$4,120$1,618 – $9,578
Ownership
For-profit64$8,220$2,638 – $14,436
Government97$3,702$1,732 – $10,074
Non-profit472$5,855$2,294 – $11,967
System affiliation
Part of a system502$6,016$2,461 – $13,101
Independent133$4,186$1,616 – $9,569

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,220
Median cash price$5,832
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

282 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $4,469 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,357; most fall between $1,600 and $9,578.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 282 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
$1,146$1,761$4,469$9,539$14,829

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 13× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,146 vs $14,829).

Of the 325 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 282 gave a usable cash price; 27 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

635 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 706 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted635
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded7
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code706

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, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Laser Vaporization of Prostate for Urine Flow.

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, “Laser vaporization of the prostate (CPT 52648) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-52648-laser-vaporization-of-the-prostate