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Procedure price report · Open prostatectomy

Freezing treatment of the prostate

CPT 55873the billing code this page is about

Destruction of prostate tissue by freezing it with probes, including the ultrasound guidance and temperature monitoring used during the procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $10,943 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 353 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $11,028. Most fall between $3,536 and $16,906 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
353
States
44
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 353 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
$1,434$5,541$10,943$16,142$21,299

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 15× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,434 vs $21,299).

How the prices are spread

$1,265 – $1,721: 34 hospitals$1,265$1,721 – $2,341: 11 hospitals$2,341 – $3,185: 6 hospitals$2,341$3,185 – $4,332: 11 hospitals$4,332 – $5,894: 16 hospitals$4,332$5,894 – $8,018: 18 hospitals$8,018 – $10,907: 61 hospitals$8,018$10,907 – $14,838: 76 hospitals$14,838 – $20,186: 65 hospitals$14,838$20,186 – $27,461: 33 hospitals$20,186median $10,943price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (331 of 353 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,265$1,72134
$1,721$2,34111
$2,341$3,1856
$3,185$4,33211
$4,332$5,89416
$5,894$8,01818
$8,018$10,90761
$10,907$14,83876
$14,838$20,18665
$20,186$27,46133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$9,672
Median cash price$10,943
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.13×

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 $10,943.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 4 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: median $8,050 across 14 hospitalsIL$8,050Wisconsin: median $27,461 across 23 hospitalsWI$27,461Michigan: median $13,017 across 18 hospitalsMI$13,017New York: median $11,817 across 37 hospitalsNY$11,817Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $15,011 across 16 hospitalsIA$15,011Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $3,536 across 11 hospitalsOH$3,536Pennsylvania: median $14,359 across 10 hospitalsPA$14,359New Jersey: median $10,106 across 28 hospitalsNJ$10,106Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $16,906 across 29 hospitalsCA$16,906Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $8,313 across 10 hospitalsVA$8,313Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 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: median $1,265 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,265Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $9,764 across 22 hospitalsTX$9,764Florida: median $10,606 across 10 hospitalsFL$10,606
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $10,943. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI23$27,461+151%$13,114 – $27,461
California CA29$16,906+54%$8,517 – $16,906
Iowa IA16$15,011+37%$15,011 – $15,011
Pennsylvania PA10$14,359+31%$5,961 – $17,425
Michigan MI18$13,017+19%$1,704 – $26,956
New York NY37$11,817+8%$10,943 – $13,784
Florida FL10$10,606−3%$3,536 – $18,281
New Jersey NJ28$10,106−8%$5,110 – $12,248
Texas TX22$9,764−11%$8,919 – $13,653
Virginia VA10$8,313−24%$5,089 – $16,703
Illinois IL14$8,050−26%$1,863 – $19,781
Ohio OH11$3,536−68%$3,452 – $10,358
Oklahoma OK14$1,265−88%$1,265 – $17,624
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $10,943.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care305$10,943$3,536 – $16,906
Children’s2fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$12,126$5,329 – $21,529
Ownership
For-profit33$13,487$2,779 – $17,573
Government46$10,606$3,639 – $14,099
Non-profit273$11,703$3,786 – $16,906
System affiliation
Part of a system295$11,421$4,501 – $16,906
Independent58$8,517$1,501 – $15,458

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$16,626
Median cash price$10,943
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

214 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $10,024 and the average of the middle 60% is $10,556; most fall between $1,704 and $16,906.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 214 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
$1,340$2,622$10,024$16,906$21,529

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,340 vs $21,529).

Of the 237 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 214 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 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

353 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (9%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 383 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted353
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here24
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code383

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 Open prostatectomy family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cryosurgical Ablation Prostate W/US & Monitori.

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, “Freezing treatment of the prostate (CPT 55873) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55873-freezing-treatment-of-the-prostate