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Procedure price report · Open prostatectomy

Open prostate removal with pelvic lymph node removal

CPT 55845the billing code this page is about

Open surgery to remove the entire prostate through a lower abdominal incision, plus removal of the lymph nodes on both sides of the pelvis; nerve sparing may or may not be done.

Hospitals typically charge $3,445 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 213 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,736. Most fall between $2,246 and $5,770 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
213
States
42
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 213 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
$1,710$2,338$3,445$5,510$7,201

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,710 vs $7,201).

How the prices are spread

$1,439 – $1,778: 16 hospitals$1,439$1,778 – $2,199: 11 hospitals$2,199 – $2,718: 32 hospitals$2,199$2,718 – $3,360: 36 hospitals$3,360 – $4,154: 27 hospitals$3,360$4,154 – $5,136: 21 hospitals$5,136 – $6,349: 28 hospitals$5,136$6,349 – $7,849: 15 hospitals$7,849 – $9,704: 2 hospitals$7,849$9,704 – $11,997: 5 hospitals$9,704median $3,445price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (193 of 213 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,439$1,77816
$1,778$2,19911
$2,199$2,71832
$2,718$3,36036
$3,360$4,15427
$4,154$5,13621
$5,136$6,34928
$6,349$7,84915
$7,849$9,7042
$9,704$11,9975

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $3,445.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,723 across 11 hospitalsIL$2,723Wisconsin: median $5,770 across 14 hospitalsWI$5,770Michigan: median $2,338 across 15 hospitalsMI$2,338New York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,246 across 13 hospitalsOR$3,246Nevada: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $3,445 across 19 hospitalsIA$3,445Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $5,239 across 10 hospitalsOH$5,239Pennsylvania: 6 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: 7 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals 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: 3 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 $2,246 across 11 hospitalsOK$2,246Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals 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: 7 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 $3,445. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI14$5,770+68%$5,770 – $5,770
Ohio OH10$5,239+52%$3,187 – $7,201
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+48%$4,350 – $5,855
Iowa IA19$3,4450%$3,445 – $3,883
Oregon OR13$3,246−6%$2,474 – $3,246
Illinois IL11$2,723−21%$2,723 – $6,451
Michigan MI15$2,338−32%$1,756 – $3,094
Oklahoma OK11$2,246−35%$2,246 – $2,246
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not 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
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not 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
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $3,445.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care167$3,285$2,204 – $5,770
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access41$3,792$2,723 – $5,770
Ownership
For-profit17fewer than 20 hospitals
Government38$3,285$2,380 – $4,780
Non-profit157$3,445$2,204 – $5,770
System affiliation
Part of a system161$3,445$2,246 – $5,770
Independent52$3,161$2,103 – $5,239

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,460
Median cash price$3,445
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

130 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,081 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,176; most fall between $2,246 and $5,206.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 130 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
$1,642$2,246$3,081$4,693$5,770

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,642 vs $5,770).

Of the 152 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 130 gave a usable cash price; 18 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

213 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 271 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted213
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here34
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code271

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 Prostect Retropub Rad W/WO Nrv Spar & Bi Plv Lym.

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 prostate removal with pelvic lymph node removal (CPT 55845) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55845-open-prostate-removal-with-pelvic-lymph-node-removal