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Procedure price report · Other OR therapeutic procedures, male genital

Unlisted keyhole procedure on the spermatic cord

CPT 55559the billing code this page is about

Used for a laparoscopic operation on the spermatic cord that has no specific billing code of its own.

Hospitals typically charge $5,574 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 282 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,673. Most fall between $1,732 and $13,375 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
282
States
42
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 282 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
$743$3,453$5,574$9,929$22,879

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 31× what the cheapest tenth charges ($743 vs $22,879).

How the prices are spread

$596 – $896: 24 hospitals$596$896 – $1,346: 9 hospitals$1,346 – $2,022: 13 hospitals$1,346$2,022 – $3,039: 8 hospitals$3,039 – $4,566: 63 hospitals$3,039$4,566 – $6,862: 38 hospitals$6,862 – $10,310: 45 hospitals$6,862$10,310 – $15,493: 17 hospitals$15,493 – $23,280: 23 hospitals$15,493$23,280 – $34,982: 14 hospitals$23,280median $5,574price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (254 of 282 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$596$89624
$896$1,3469
$1,346$2,02213
$2,022$3,0398
$3,039$4,56663
$4,566$6,86238
$6,862$10,31045
$10,310$15,49317
$15,493$23,28023
$23,280$34,98214

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$5,574
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 $5,574.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $8,313 across 10 hospitalsMI$8,313New York: median $6,904 across 24 hospitalsNY$6,904Massachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,732 across 10 hospitalsOH$1,732Pennsylvania: median $10,994 across 11 hospitalsPA$10,994New Jersey: median $6,458 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,601 across 32 hospitalsCA$3,601Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $3,961 across 32 hospitalsTX$3,961Florida: median $13,311 across 13 hospitalsFL$13,311
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,574. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Florida FL13$13,311+139%$1,732 – $17,791
Pennsylvania PA11$10,994+97%$8,722 – $14,210
Michigan MI10$8,313+49%$8,313 – $31,702
New York NY24$6,904+24%$6,167 – $7,547
New Jersey NJ29$6,458+16%$5,110 – $7,786
Texas TX32$3,961−29%$3,666 – $3,961
California CA32$3,601−35%$3,601 – $7,737
Ohio OH10$1,732−69%$1,089 – $45,076
Wisconsin WI8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $5,574.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care249$6,096$3,481 – $15,575
Critical access31$1,085$736 – $5,646
Ownership
For-profit36$8,064$3,961 – $17,443
Government39$3,529$767 – $13,375
Non-profit205$5,110$1,988 – $10,498
System affiliation
Part of a system237$5,646$3,289 – $14,024
Independent45$3,887$766 – $10,424

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,602
Median cash price$5,574
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

101 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,666 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,373; most fall between $1,070 and $4,607.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 101 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
$715$1,363$3,666$3,961$9,864

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($715 vs $9,864).

Of the 128 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 101 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

282 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 324 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted282
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded10
Hospitals that filed this code324

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 PR Neurolysis & Denervation of Spermatic Cord C/T 55535.

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, “Unlisted keyhole procedure on the spermatic cord (CPT 55559) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55559-unlisted-keyhole-procedure-on-the-spermatic-cord