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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Removal of a fluid sac around one testicle

CPT 55040the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove a hydrocele, a fluid-filled sac surrounding one testicle, on one side only.

Hospitals typically charge $2,347 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,009 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,821. Most fall between $735 and $6,943 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,009
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 1,009 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
$562$830$2,347$5,711$11,317

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($562 vs $11,317).

How the prices are spread

$415 – $597: 69 hospitals$415$597 – $858: 158 hospitals$858 – $1,234: 92 hospitals$858$1,234 – $1,774: 80 hospitals$1,774 – $2,551: 65 hospitals$1,774$2,551 – $3,667: 76 hospitals$3,667 – $5,272: 148 hospitals$3,667$5,272 – $7,579: 82 hospitals$7,579 – $10,895: 79 hospitals$7,579$10,895 – $15,663: 73 hospitals$10,895median $2,347price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (922 of 1,009 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$415$59769
$597$858158
$858$1,23492
$1,234$1,77480
$1,774$2,55165
$2,551$3,66776
$3,667$5,272148
$5,272$7,57982
$7,579$10,89579
$10,895$15,66373

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,658
Median cash price$2,347
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.64×

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 $2,347.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: median $574 across 12 hospitalsME$574Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $470 across 10 hospitalsNH$470Washington: median $1,022 across 26 hospitalsWA$1,022Idaho: median $8,630 across 12 hospitalsID$8,630Montana: median $641 across 14 hospitalsMT$641North Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,838 across 38 hospitalsMN$1,838Illinois: median $1,642 across 39 hospitalsIL$1,642Wisconsin: median $2,148 across 38 hospitalsWI$2,148Michigan: median $1,404 across 45 hospitalsMI$1,404New York: median $4,176 across 62 hospitalsNY$4,176Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $814 across 23 hospitalsOR$814Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $847 across 50 hospitalsIA$847Indiana: median $1,455 across 26 hospitalsIN$1,455Ohio: median $10,552 across 49 hospitalsOH$10,552Pennsylvania: median $2,622 across 34 hospitalsPA$2,622New Jersey: median $4,493 across 33 hospitalsNJ$4,493Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,781 across 64 hospitalsCA$4,781Utah: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $838 across 14 hospitalsCO$838Nebraska: median $847 across 25 hospitalsNE$847Missouri: median $2,032 across 25 hospitalsMO$2,032Kentucky: median $894 across 13 hospitalsKY$894West Virginia: median $2,744 across 22 hospitalsWV$2,744Virginia: median $8,423 across 20 hospitalsVA$8,423Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $4,394 across 11 hospitalsAZ$4,394New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $910 across 33 hospitalsKS$910Arkansas: median $3,182 across 15 hospitalsAR$3,182Tennessee: median $3,949 across 15 hospitalsTN$3,949North Carolina: median $3,891 across 10 hospitalsNC$3,891South Carolina: median $6,739 across 10 hospitalsSC$6,739Oklahoma: median $709 across 17 hospitalsOK$709Louisiana: median $2,951 across 20 hospitalsLA$2,951Mississippi: median $5,530 across 12 hospitalsMS$5,530Alabama: median $3,195 across 15 hospitalsAL$3,195Georgia: median $3,688 across 24 hospitalsGA$3,688Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,550 across 43 hospitalsTX$4,550Florida: median $5,743 across 15 hospitalsFL$5,743
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,347. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Ohio OH49$10,552+350%$833 – $15,108
Idaho ID12$8,630+268%$3,605 – $8,630
Virginia VA20$8,423+259%$2,623 – $12,954
South Carolina SC10$6,739+187%$4,031 – $11,775
Florida FL15$5,743+145%$1,593 – $12,201
Mississippi MS12$5,530+136%$1,999 – $7,745
California CA64$4,781+104%$1,254 – $15,663
Texas TX43$4,550+94%$2,976 – $8,906
New Jersey NJ33$4,493+91%$3,906 – $5,729
Arizona AZ11$4,394+87%$522 – $21,901
New York NY62$4,176+78%$797 – $4,595
Tennessee TN15$3,949+68%$338 – $5,202
North Carolina NC10$3,891+66%$628 – $16,692
Georgia GA24$3,688+57%$2,821 – $6,653
Alabama AL15$3,195+36%$978 – $8,713
Arkansas AR15$3,182+36%$775 – $4,302
Louisiana LA20$2,951+26%$1,527 – $5,350
West Virginia WV22$2,744+17%$370 – $6,126
Pennsylvania PA34$2,622+12%$220 – $7,219
Wisconsin WI38$2,148−8%$1,672 – $3,599
Missouri MO25$2,032−13%$564 – $6,800
Minnesota MN38$1,838−22%$939 – $2,605
Illinois IL39$1,642−30%$637 – $8,901
Indiana IN26$1,455−38%$735 – $8,616
Michigan MI45$1,404−40%$643 – $4,923
Washington WA26$1,022−56%$653 – $5,064
Kansas KS33$910−61%$617 – $2,871
Kentucky KY13$894−62%$546 – $4,159
Iowa IA50$847−64%$739 – $2,973
Nebraska NE25$847−64%$690 – $2,370
Colorado CO14$838−64%$574 – $4,922
Oregon OR23$814−65%$624 – $979
Oklahoma OK17$709−70%$709 – $7,195
Montana MT14$641−73%$494 – $4,229
Maine ME12$574−76%$456 – $2,229
New Hampshire NH10$470−80%$343 – $789
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not 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 $2,347.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care689$3,986$846 – $9,280
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access302$1,007$656 – $2,973
Ownership
For-profit108$5,637$1,178 – $10,377
Government200$1,381$713 – $4,450
Non-profit699$2,325$714 – $6,668
System affiliation
Part of a system750$3,239$800 – $8,236
Independent259$1,086$640 – $4,853

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,091
Median cash price$2,347
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

478 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,593 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,890; most fall between $673 and $4,840.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 478 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
$514$733$1,593$4,089$8,630

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 17× what the cheapest tenth charges ($514 vs $8,630).

Of the 535 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 478 gave a usable cash price; 22 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 35 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,009 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (26%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,108 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,009
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here55
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded9
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded35
Hospitals that filed this code1,108

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 Excision Hydrocele Unilateral.

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 fluid sac around one testicle (CPT 55040) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55040-removal-of-a-fluid-sac-around-one-testicle