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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Removal of a fluid sac on the spermatic cord, one side

CPT 55500the billing code this page is about

An operation to excise a hydrocele located along the spermatic cord on one side, when done as a stand-alone procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $1,252 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 535 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,847. Most fall between $651 and $4,581 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
535
States
48
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 535 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
$525$722$1,252$4,081$7,325

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($525 vs $7,325).

How the prices are spread

$410 – $571: 44 hospitals$410$571 – $795: 82 hospitals$795 – $1,108: 77 hospitals$795$1,108 – $1,543: 59 hospitals$1,543 – $2,149: 46 hospitals$1,543$2,149 – $2,993: 27 hospitals$2,993 – $4,168: 45 hospitals$2,993$4,168 – $5,805: 48 hospitals$5,805 – $8,086: 32 hospitals$5,805$8,086 – $11,262: 36 hospitals$8,086median $1,252price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (496 of 535 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$410$57144
$571$79582
$795$1,10877
$1,108$1,54359
$1,543$2,14946
$2,149$2,99327
$2,993$4,16845
$4,168$5,80548
$5,805$8,08632
$8,086$11,26236

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$1,252
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.35×

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 $1,252.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 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: median $872 across 16 hospitalsWA$872Idaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 7 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 $1,896 across 21 hospitalsMN$1,896Illinois: median $982 across 19 hospitalsIL$982Wisconsin: median $1,212 across 25 hospitalsWI$1,212Michigan: median $858 across 28 hospitalsMI$858New York: median $3,601 across 40 hospitalsNY$3,601Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $722 across 16 hospitalsOR$722Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $982 across 29 hospitalsIA$982Indiana: median $525 across 10 hospitalsIN$525Ohio: median $1,617 across 17 hospitalsOH$1,617Pennsylvania: median $5,085 across 14 hospitalsPA$5,085New Jersey: median $4,627 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,627Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,576 across 48 hospitalsCA$1,576Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $885 across 10 hospitalsNE$885Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: median $631 across 10 hospitalsKY$631West Virginia: median $417 across 12 hospitalsWV$417Virginia: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $714 across 11 hospitalsKS$714Arkansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 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 $649 across 12 hospitalsOK$649Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,668 across 25 hospitalsTX$3,668Florida: median $1,441 across 10 hospitalsFL$1,441
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,252. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA14$5,085+306%$611 – $7,055
New Jersey NJ31$4,627+270%$3,818 – $5,419
Texas TX25$3,668+193%$1,366 – $4,519
New York NY40$3,601+188%$651 – $4,184
Minnesota MN21$1,896+51%$1,072 – $2,225
Ohio OH17$1,617+29%$651 – $1,869
California CA48$1,576+26%$1,280 – $11,262
Florida FL10$1,441+15%$1,441 – $3,106
Wisconsin WI25$1,212−3%$1,212 – $1,999
Iowa IA29$982−22%$868 – $1,198
Illinois IL19$982−22%$525 – $9,346
Nebraska NE10$885−29%$728 – $4,652
Washington WA16$872−30%$745 – $4,345
Michigan MI28$858−31%$598 – $1,460
Oregon OR16$722−42%$378 – $810
Kansas KS11$714−43%$579 – $2,893
Oklahoma OK12$649−48%$649 – $649
Kentucky KY10$631−50%$398 – $968
Indiana IN10$525−58%$525 – $1,524
West Virginia WV12$417−67%$414 – $1,088
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not 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
Hawaii HI4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $1,252.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care358$1,617$703 – $5,831
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access165$998$585 – $1,999
Ownership
For-profit47$2,893$656 – $8,773
Government120$1,055$703 – $3,845
Non-profit367$1,524$649 – $4,627
System affiliation
Part of a system392$1,441$649 – $4,709
Independent143$1,159$703 – $3,177

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,506
Median cash price$1,252
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

280 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,072 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,329; most fall between $598 and $4,496.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 280 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
$490$649$1,072$2,911$7,427

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($490 vs $7,427).

Of the 313 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 280 gave a usable cash price; 21 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 12 a list price only.

How complete is this

535 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 604 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted535
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code604

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 Exc Hydrocele Sprmatic Cord Uni Spx.

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 on the spermatic cord, one side (CPT 55500) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55500-removal-of-a-fluid-sac-on-the-spermatic-cord-one-side