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

Removal of a foreign object from the scrotum

CPT 55120the billing code this page is about

An operation to open the scrotum and take out an object lodged inside it.

Hospitals typically charge $1,917 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 592 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,990. Most fall between $660 and $4,478 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
592
States
47
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 592 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
$530$810$1,917$3,810$5,877

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($530 vs $5,877).

How the prices are spread

$371 – $496: 17 hospitals$371$496 – $662: 79 hospitals$662 – $885: 42 hospitals$662$885 – $1,183: 55 hospitals$1,183 – $1,581: 56 hospitals$1,183$1,581 – $2,113: 35 hospitals$2,113 – $2,824: 92 hospitals$2,113$2,824 – $3,774: 36 hospitals$3,774 – $5,044: 52 hospitals$3,774$5,044 – $6,741: 70 hospitals$5,044median $1,917price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (534 of 592 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$371$49617
$496$66279
$662$88542
$885$1,18355
$1,183$1,58156
$1,581$2,11335
$2,113$2,82492
$2,824$3,77436
$3,774$5,04452
$5,044$6,74170

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,136
Median cash price$1,917
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.90×

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 $1,917.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,494 across 16 hospitalsWA$2,494Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $1,552 across 16 hospitalsMN$1,552Illinois: median $637 across 20 hospitalsIL$637Wisconsin: median $1,392 across 35 hospitalsWI$1,392Michigan: median $688 across 22 hospitalsMI$688New York: median $2,424 across 35 hospitalsNY$2,424Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,358 across 23 hospitalsOR$1,358Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $890 across 17 hospitalsIA$890Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,487 across 17 hospitalsOH$1,487Pennsylvania: median $2,137 across 22 hospitalsPA$2,137New Jersey: median $3,986 across 26 hospitalsNJ$3,986Connecticut: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $3,755 across 50 hospitalsCA$3,755Utah: median $903 across 17 hospitalsUT$903Colorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $373 across 11 hospitalsWV$373Virginia: 4 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: median $12,157 across 12 hospitalsAZ$12,157New Mexico: median $601 across 11 hospitalsNM$601Kansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $662 across 11 hospitalsTN$662North Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $578 across 17 hospitalsOK$578Louisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: median $1,344 across 11 hospitalsMS$1,344Alabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $2,507 across 18 hospitalsGA$2,507Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,415 across 40 hospitalsTX$2,415Florida: median $4,476 across 21 hospitalsFL$4,476
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,917. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ12$12,157+534%$960 – $12,157
Florida FL21$4,476+133%$1,487 – $5,571
New Jersey NJ26$3,986+108%$2,267 – $5,855
California CA50$3,755+96%$1,132 – $6,418
Georgia GA18$2,507+31%$2,507 – $5,507
Washington WA16$2,494+30%$659 – $4,285
New York NY35$2,424+26%$883 – $2,655
Texas TX40$2,415+26%$2,260 – $3,855
Pennsylvania PA22$2,137+11%$176 – $3,860
Minnesota MN16$1,552−19%$863 – $2,316
Ohio OH17$1,487−22%$736 – $2,246
Wisconsin WI35$1,392−27%$660 – $1,774
Oregon OR23$1,358−29%$657 – $4,170
Mississippi MS11$1,344−30%$1,176 – $2,464
Utah UT17$903−53%$793 – $1,003
Iowa IA17$890−54%$890 – $890
Michigan MI22$688−64%$542 – $2,874
Tennessee TN11$662−65%$355 – $1,288
Illinois IL20$637−67%$508 – $3,150
New Mexico NM11$601−69%$601 – $862
Oklahoma OK17$578−70%$578 – $2,594
West Virginia WV11$373−81%$373 – $973
Connecticut CT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,917.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care470$2,260$660 – $4,861
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access111$916$601 – $2,464
Ownership
For-profit55$2,426$656 – $5,507
Government74$1,336$637 – $2,975
Non-profit462$1,834$660 – $4,474
System affiliation
Part of a system501$2,137$660 – $4,861
Independent91$1,014$625 – $2,575

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,179
Median cash price$1,917
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

423 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,968 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,119; most fall between $660 and $4,929.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 423 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
$542$793$1,968$4,285$6,418

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($542 vs $6,418).

Of the 458 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 423 gave a usable cash price; 15 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

592 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 635 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted592
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here22
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded21
Hospitals that filed this code635

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 Removal Foreign Body Scrotum.

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 foreign object from the scrotum (CPT 55120) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55120-removal-of-a-foreign-object-from-the-scrotum