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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Open removal of enlarged scrotal veins through the abdomen

CPT 55535the billing code this page is about

Open surgery through an abdominal incision to tie off or remove the swollen veins of the spermatic cord (varicocele).

Hospitals typically charge $1,766 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 272 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,427. Most fall between $798 and $7,507 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
272
States
38
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 272 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
$701$875$1,766$7,191$10,758

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($701 vs $10,758).

How the prices are spread

$529 – $718: 26 hospitals$529$718 – $975: 44 hospitals$975 – $1,324: 26 hospitals$975$1,324 – $1,797: 28 hospitals$1,797 – $2,439: 6 hospitals$1,797$2,439 – $3,311: 3 hospitals$3,311 – $4,495: 14 hospitals$3,311$4,495 – $6,101: 12 hospitals$6,101 – $8,282: 58 hospitals$6,101$8,282 – $11,243: 29 hospitals$8,282median $1,766price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (246 of 272 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$529$71826
$718$97544
$975$1,32426
$1,324$1,79728
$1,797$2,4396
$2,439$3,3113
$3,311$4,49514
$4,495$6,10112
$6,101$8,28258
$8,282$11,24329

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,614
Median cash price$1,766
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.27×

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 $1,766.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $875 across 12 hospitalsIL$875Wisconsin: median $1,663 across 14 hospitalsWI$1,663Michigan: median $1,663 across 16 hospitalsMI$1,663New York: median $7,384 across 22 hospitalsNY$7,384Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,084 across 20 hospitalsIA$1,084Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $9,340 across 10 hospitalsPA$9,340New Jersey: median $6,839 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6,839Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $10,758 across 23 hospitalsCA$10,758Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $714 across 12 hospitalsOK$714Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $6,620 across 21 hospitalsTX$6,620Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,766. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA23$10,758+509%$10,758 – $10,758
Pennsylvania PA10$9,340+429%$4,138 – $11,758
New York NY22$7,384+318%$1,309 – $7,384
New Jersey NJ29$6,839+287%$5,110 – $7,786
Texas TX21$6,620+275%$6,620 – $7,149
Michigan MI16$1,663−6%$827 – $8,902
Wisconsin WI14$1,663−6%$1,663 – $1,663
Iowa IA20$1,084−39%$998 – $1,219
Illinois IL12$875−50%$760 – $1,084
Oklahoma OK12$714−60%$714 – $714
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $1,766.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care222$3,986$798 – $7,786
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access44$1,366$813 – $4,125
Ownership
For-profit30$1,766$875 – $7,005
Government35$1,343$760 – $7,384
Non-profit206$1,869$810 – $7,786
System affiliation
Part of a system217$3,986$875 – $7,786
Independent55$941$701 – $3,993

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,987
Median cash price$1,766
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

166 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,273 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,334; most fall between $792 and $7,149.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 166 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
$695$810$1,273$6,620$10,758

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($695 vs $10,758).

Of the 192 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 166 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

272 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 305 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted272
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here28
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 — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code305

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 Abdl.

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, “Open removal of enlarged scrotal veins through the abdomen (CPT 55535) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55535-open-removal-of-enlarged-scrotal-veins-through-the-abdomen