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Procedure price report · Open prostatectomy

Open removal of the whole prostate for cancer

CPT 55840the billing code this page is about

Open surgery through a lower abdominal incision to remove the entire prostate and seminal vesicles, with or without an effort to spare the nearby nerves.

Hospitals typically charge $2,957 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 193 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,129. Most fall between $1,932 and $4,888 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
193
States
41
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 193 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
$1,516$2,112$2,957$4,720$5,801

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,516 vs $5,801).

How the prices are spread

$1,203 – $1,487: 9 hospitals$1,203$1,487 – $1,839: 9 hospitals$1,839 – $2,273: 33 hospitals$1,839$2,273 – $2,811: 28 hospitals$2,811 – $3,475: 26 hospitals$2,811$3,475 – $4,296: 17 hospitals$4,296 – $5,312: 29 hospitals$4,296$5,312 – $6,567: 18 hospitals$6,567 – $8,119: 1 hospitals$6,567$8,119 – $10,038: 9 hospitals$8,119median $2,957price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (179 of 193 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,203$1,4879
$1,487$1,8399
$1,839$2,27333
$2,273$2,81128
$2,811$3,47526
$3,475$4,29617
$4,296$5,31229
$5,312$6,56718
$6,567$8,1191
$8,119$10,0389

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,957.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: median $4,720 across 19 hospitalsWI$4,720Michigan: median $2,112 across 15 hospitalsMI$2,112New York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,957 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,957Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,296 across 10 hospitalsOH$4,296Pennsylvania: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $1,932 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,932Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,957. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+73%$3,986 – $5,855
Wisconsin WI19$4,720+60%$4,720 – $10,038
Ohio OH10$4,296+45%$2,514 – $5,554
Iowa IA18$2,9570%$2,957 – $3,165
Michigan MI15$2,112−29%$1,516 – $2,522
Oklahoma OK10$1,932−35%$1,932 – $1,932
Illinois IL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN1not 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 $2,957.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care150$2,890$1,932 – $5,098
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access39$3,510$2,139 – $4,720
Ownership
For-profit18fewer than 20 hospitals
Government27$3,165$2,067 – $3,981
Non-profit147$2,957$1,932 – $5,098
System affiliation
Part of a system148$2,957$1,932 – $5,098
Independent45$2,736$1,809 – $4,296

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,750
Median cash price$2,957
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

127 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,736 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,051; most fall between $1,932 and $4,720.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 127 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
$1,452$2,112$2,736$4,137$4,720

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,452 vs $4,720).

Of the 154 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 127 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 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

193 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 245 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted193
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here39
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 — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code245

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Open prostatectomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Remv Prostate,Retropub,Radical.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Open removal of the whole prostate for cancer (CPT 55840) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55840-open-removal-of-the-whole-prostate-for-cancer