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Procedure price report · Other non-OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Needle drainage of fluid around the testicle

CPT 55000the billing code this page is about

A needle is used to withdraw fluid from a hydrocele, a fluid collection in the sac around the testicle; medication may be injected afterward.

Hospitals typically charge $601 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,132 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $624. Most fall between $202 and $1,236 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,132
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,132 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
$140$234$601$1,085$2,211

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($140 vs $2,211).

How the prices are spread

$105 – $148: 81 hospitals$105$148 – $208: 99 hospitals$208 – $294: 129 hospitals$208$294 – $416: 88 hospitals$416 – $587: 107 hospitals$416$587 – $829: 152 hospitals$829 – $1,171: 182 hospitals$829$1,171 – $1,654: 67 hospitals$1,654 – $2,336: 61 hospitals$1,654$2,336 – $3,298: 55 hospitals$2,336median $601price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,021 of 1,132 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$105$14881
$148$20899
$208$294129
$294$41688
$416$587107
$587$829152
$829$1,171182
$1,171$1,65467
$1,654$2,33661
$2,336$3,29855

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$723
Median cash price$601
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.83×

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 $601.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $552 across 10 hospitalsME$552Vermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $150 across 11 hospitalsNH$150Washington: median $320 across 29 hospitalsWA$320Idaho: median $707 across 11 hospitalsID$707Montana: median $250 across 14 hospitalsMT$250North Dakota: median $723 across 11 hospitalsND$723Minnesota: median $442 across 39 hospitalsMN$442Illinois: median $477 across 48 hospitalsIL$477Wisconsin: median $319 across 52 hospitalsWI$319Michigan: median $692 across 49 hospitalsMI$692New York: median $833 across 56 hospitalsNY$833Massachusetts: median $1,225 across 23 hospitalsMA$1,225Oregon: median $219 across 25 hospitalsOR$219Nevada: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: median $1,546 across 10 hospitalsSD$1,546Iowa: median $279 across 44 hospitalsIA$279Indiana: median $309 across 19 hospitalsIN$309Ohio: median $844 across 50 hospitalsOH$844Pennsylvania: median $805 across 45 hospitalsPA$805New Jersey: median $3,986 across 33 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: median $1,023 across 10 hospitalsCT$1,023Rhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,788 across 67 hospitalsCA$1,788Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $993 across 27 hospitalsCO$993Nebraska: median $282 across 25 hospitalsNE$282Missouri: median $242 across 24 hospitalsMO$242Kentucky: median $158 across 11 hospitalsKY$158West Virginia: median $679 across 21 hospitalsWV$679Virginia: median $950 across 31 hospitalsVA$950Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $150 across 20 hospitalsKS$150Arkansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $283 across 24 hospitalsTN$283North Carolina: median $556 across 28 hospitalsNC$556South Carolina: median $853 across 26 hospitalsSC$853Oklahoma: median $140 across 15 hospitalsOK$140Louisiana: median $235 across 18 hospitalsLA$235Mississippi: median $180 across 16 hospitalsMS$180Alabama: median $332 across 10 hospitalsAL$332Georgia: median $1,074 across 24 hospitalsGA$1,074Hawaii: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $732 across 70 hospitalsTX$732Florida: median $2,630 across 28 hospitalsFL$2,630
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $601. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ33$3,986+563%$779 – $6,770
Florida FL28$2,630+338%$1,103 – $6,795
California CA67$1,788+198%$906 – $3,298
South Dakota SD10$1,546+157%$501 – $1,546
Massachusetts MA23$1,225+104%$344 – $2,185
Georgia GA24$1,074+79%$1,074 – $4,862
Connecticut CT10$1,023+70%$708 – $1,430
Colorado CO27$993+65%$499 – $1,648
Virginia VA31$950+58%$493 – $1,132
South Carolina SC26$853+42%$326 – $1,054
Ohio OH50$844+40%$337 – $2,104
New York NY56$833+39%$258 – $1,523
Pennsylvania PA45$805+34%$64 – $1,132
Texas TX70$732+22%$633 – $1,085
North Dakota ND11$723+20%$305 – $889
Idaho ID11$707+18%$580 – $1,783
Michigan MI49$692+15%$106 – $1,145
West Virginia WV21$679+13%$140 – $1,046
North Carolina NC28$556−7%$390 – $866
Maine ME10$552−8%$135 – $852
Illinois IL48$477−21%$173 – $1,472
Minnesota MN39$442−26%$197 – $731
Alabama AL10$332−45%$59 – $804
Washington WA29$320−47%$228 – $735
Wisconsin WI52$319−47%$216 – $641
Indiana IN19$309−49%$158 – $861
Tennessee TN24$283−53%$132 – $289
Nebraska NE25$282−53%$212 – $349
Iowa IA44$279−54%$145 – $456
Montana MT14$250−58%$179 – $455
Missouri MO24$242−60%$191 – $655
Louisiana LA18$235−61%$193 – $1,155
Oregon OR25$219−64%$139 – $570
Mississippi MS16$180−70%$164 – $297
Kentucky KY11$158−74%$121 – $716
Kansas KS20$150−75%$61 – $258
New Hampshire NH11$150−75%$90 – $344
Oklahoma OK15$140−77%$140 – $207
Arizona AZ8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $601.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care853$763$235 – $1,523
Children’s15fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access262$269$154 – $577
Ownership
For-profit74$732$319 – $1,424
Government216$402$180 – $978
Non-profit840$655$205 – $1,472
System affiliation
Part of a system921$681$219 – $1,472
Independent211$351$150 – $978

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$971
Median cash price$601
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

778 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $637 and the average of the middle 60% is $640; most fall between $216 and $1,189.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 778 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
$141$245$637$1,092$2,104

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($141 vs $2,104).

Of the 838 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 778 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 36 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,132 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (29%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,226 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,132
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here52
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded41
Hospitals that filed this code1,226

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 non-OR therapeutic procedures, male genital family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Pnxr Aspir Hydrocele Tunica Vagis W/WO Njx Med.

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, “Needle drainage of fluid around the testicle (CPT 55000) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55000-needle-drainage-of-fluid-around-the-testicle