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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Surgery on enlarged scrotal veins through the groin area

CPT 55530the billing code this page is about

The swollen veins of the spermatic cord, called a varicocele, are tied off or removed through an incision over the cord.

Hospitals typically charge $2,441 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 563 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,773. Most fall between $744 and $6,311 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
563
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 563 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
$543$843$2,441$5,049$11,043

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 20× what the cheapest tenth charges ($543 vs $11,043).

How the prices are spread

$431 – $613: 53 hospitals$431$613 – $870: 67 hospitals$870 – $1,235: 48 hospitals$870$1,235 – $1,754: 58 hospitals$1,754 – $2,491: 28 hospitals$1,754$2,491 – $3,537: 40 hospitals$3,537 – $5,023: 96 hospitals$3,537$5,023 – $7,132: 43 hospitals$7,132 – $10,128: 41 hospitals$7,132$10,128 – $14,382: 33 hospitals$10,128median $2,441price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (507 of 563 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$431$61353
$613$87067
$870$1,23548
$1,235$1,75458
$1,754$2,49128
$2,491$3,53740
$3,537$5,02396
$5,023$7,13243
$7,132$10,12841
$10,128$14,38233

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$3,601
Median cash price$2,441
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $2,441.

Alaska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 7 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 $845 across 11 hospitalsWA$845Idaho: 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 $2,585 across 22 hospitalsMN$2,585Illinois: median $931 across 21 hospitalsIL$931Wisconsin: median $1,356 across 28 hospitalsWI$1,356Michigan: median $1,448 across 32 hospitalsMI$1,448New York: median $4,081 across 47 hospitalsNY$4,081Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $649 across 10 hospitalsOR$649Nevada: 3 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 $885 across 25 hospitalsIA$885Indiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,495 across 21 hospitalsOH$1,495Pennsylvania: median $5,356 across 15 hospitalsPA$5,356New Jersey: median $4,561 across 31 hospitalsNJ$4,561Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $5,049 across 51 hospitalsCA$5,049Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $868 across 16 hospitalsWV$868Virginia: median $2,173 across 10 hospitalsVA$2,173Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $585 across 13 hospitalsOK$585Louisiana: median $3,402 across 14 hospitalsLA$3,402Mississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: median $3,811 across 13 hospitalsAL$3,811Georgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,346 across 29 hospitalsTX$4,346Florida: median $1,495 across 11 hospitalsFL$1,495
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,441. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA15$5,356+119%$3,467 – $7,055
California CA51$5,049+107%$3,089 – $11,043
New Jersey NJ31$4,561+87%$3,818 – $5,339
Texas TX29$4,346+78%$3,368 – $8,609
New York NY47$4,081+67%$1,014 – $4,595
Alabama AL13$3,811+56%$1,092 – $8,683
Louisiana LA14$3,402+39%$1,439 – $4,667
Minnesota MN22$2,585+6%$991 – $3,517
Virginia VA10$2,173−11%$1,980 – $5,779
Florida FL11$1,495−39%$1,441 – $3,462
Ohio OH21$1,495−39%$536 – $16,631
Michigan MI32$1,448−41%$540 – $3,496
Wisconsin WI28$1,356−44%$1,356 – $1,802
Illinois IL21$931−62%$663 – $19,058
Iowa IA25$885−64%$822 – $1,117
West Virginia WV16$868−64%$369 – $8,186
Washington WA11$845−65%$649 – $13,899
Oregon OR10$649−73%$631 – $822
Oklahoma OK13$585−76%$585 – $7,032
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $2,441.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care439$3,769$764 – $7,445
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access112$1,061$679 – $3,322
Ownership
For-profit57$4,743$968 – $8,843
Government96$1,356$658 – $5,674
Non-profit409$2,441$764 – $5,589
System affiliation
Part of a system439$3,304$769 – $6,720
Independent124$1,263$663 – $5,867

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,626
Median cash price$2,441
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

276 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,238 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,977; most fall between $641 and $5,049.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 276 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$672$1,238$4,346$8,241

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($530 vs $8,241).

Of the 313 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 276 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

563 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 624 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted563
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded9
Hospitals that filed this code624

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 Varicocele/Ligation Spermatic Veins 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, “Surgery on enlarged scrotal veins through the groin area (CPT 55530) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55530-surgery-on-enlarged-scrotal-veins-through-the-groin-area