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Procedure price report · Therapeutic radiology

Spacer gel placed between prostate and rectum

CPT 55874the billing code this page is about

Injection of dissolvable spacer material through the skin behind the scrotum into the space in front of the rectum, done to separate the rectum from the prostate before radiation treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $6,134 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 875 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,469. Most fall between $3,359 and $10,981 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
875
States
49
Filings dated
Nov 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 875 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
$1,522$3,850$6,134$9,692$13,950

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,522 vs $13,950).

How the prices are spread

$834 – $1,128: 20 hospitals$834$1,128 – $1,525: 25 hospitals$1,525 – $2,063: 32 hospitals$1,525$2,063 – $2,790: 30 hospitals$2,790 – $3,773: 61 hospitals$2,790$3,773 – $5,103: 128 hospitals$5,103 – $6,902: 154 hospitals$5,103$6,902 – $9,334: 138 hospitals$9,334 – $12,624: 123 hospitals$9,334$12,624 – $17,074: 78 hospitals$12,624median $6,134price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (789 of 875 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$834$1,12820
$1,128$1,52525
$1,525$2,06332
$2,063$2,79030
$2,790$3,77361
$3,773$5,103128
$5,103$6,902154
$6,902$9,334138
$9,334$12,624123
$12,624$17,07478

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,478
Median cash price$6,134
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.12×

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 $6,134.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,267 across 17 hospitalsWA$4,267Idaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: median $3,529 across 10 hospitalsMN$3,529Illinois: median $6,555 across 46 hospitalsIL$6,555Wisconsin: median $4,469 across 42 hospitalsWI$4,469Michigan: median $7,878 across 39 hospitalsMI$7,878New York: median $6,016 across 41 hospitalsNY$6,016Massachusetts: median $6,134 across 14 hospitalsMA$6,134Oregon: median $7,117 across 13 hospitalsOR$7,117Nevada: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $7,438 across 22 hospitalsIA$7,438Indiana: median $2,831 across 31 hospitalsIN$2,831Ohio: median $7,447 across 33 hospitalsOH$7,447Pennsylvania: median $8,595 across 30 hospitalsPA$8,595New Jersey: median $5,632 across 39 hospitalsNJ$5,632Connecticut: median $8,165 across 10 hospitalsCT$8,165Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $8,684 across 70 hospitalsCA$8,684Utah: median $9,532 across 15 hospitalsUT$9,532Colorado: median $4,207 across 23 hospitalsCO$4,207Nebraska: median $3,550 across 13 hospitalsNE$3,550Missouri: median $6,020 across 25 hospitalsMO$6,020Kentucky: median $4,868 across 10 hospitalsKY$4,868West Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,960 across 16 hospitalsVA$3,960Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $3,850 across 11 hospitalsAZ$3,850New Mexico: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $3,276 across 16 hospitalsTN$3,276North Carolina: median $8,178 across 28 hospitalsNC$8,178South Carolina: median $7,705 across 17 hospitalsSC$7,705Oklahoma: median $4,682 across 14 hospitalsOK$4,682Louisiana: median $2,390 across 18 hospitalsLA$2,390Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $10,228 across 31 hospitalsGA$10,228Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $5,981 across 62 hospitalsTX$5,981Florida: median $8,272 across 48 hospitalsFL$8,272
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $6,134. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Georgia GA31$10,228+67%$7,322 – $11,805
Utah UT15$9,532+55%$6,289 – $9,532
California CA70$8,684+42%$5,560 – $13,950
Pennsylvania PA30$8,595+40%$6,096 – $10,947
Florida FL48$8,272+35%$5,103 – $11,957
North Carolina NC28$8,178+33%$3,750 – $13,220
Connecticut CT10$8,165+33%$4,982 – $16,256
Michigan MI39$7,878+28%$4,469 – $12,584
South Carolina SC17$7,705+26%$3,360 – $8,262
Ohio OH33$7,447+21%$3,826 – $10,505
Iowa IA22$7,438+21%$3,707 – $7,438
Oregon OR13$7,117+16%$4,336 – $11,968
Illinois IL46$6,555+7%$3,449 – $10,753
Massachusetts MA14$6,1340%$3,359 – $14,684
Missouri MO25$6,020−2%$4,050 – $13,845
New York NY41$6,016−2%$4,059 – $11,765
Texas TX62$5,981−3%$2,625 – $6,922
New Jersey NJ39$5,632−8%$4,350 – $6,783
Kentucky KY10$4,868−21%$3,449 – $20,413
Oklahoma OK14$4,682−24%$4,682 – $8,462
Wisconsin WI42$4,469−27%$840 – $7,369
Washington WA17$4,267−30%$4,193 – $9,808
Colorado CO23$4,207−31%$3,375 – $11,683
Virginia VA16$3,960−35%$1,448 – $5,906
Arizona AZ11$3,850−37%$3,278 – $6,580
Nebraska NE13$3,550−42%$471 – $4,532
Minnesota MN10$3,529−42%$497 – $6,167
Tennessee TN16$3,276−47%$1,164 – $4,288
Indiana IN31$2,831−54%$834 – $7,831
Louisiana LA18$2,390−61%$1,865 – $6,802
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH1not 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 $6,134.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care778$6,268$3,417 – $11,681
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access87$4,469$1,127 – $9,692
Ownership
For-profit67$6,106$3,449 – $11,805
Government119$5,815$1,661 – $9,808
Non-profit686$6,289$3,449 – $10,981
System affiliation
Part of a system767$6,289$3,449 – $11,350
Independent108$4,905$1,445 – $10,373

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$9,968
Median cash price$6,134
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

593 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $6,409 and the average of the middle 60% is $6,928; most fall between $3,542 and $11,805.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 593 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
$1,868$4,207$6,409$10,228$13,950

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,868 vs $13,950).

Of the 680 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 593 gave a usable cash price; 55 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 32 a list price only.

How complete is this

875 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (22%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,007 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted875
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here98
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded31
Hospitals that filed this code1,007

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 Therapeutic radiology family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Transperineal Plmt Biodegradable Matrl 1/Mlt Njx.

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, “Spacer gel placed between prostate and rectum (CPT 55874) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-55874-spacer-gel-placed-between-prostate-and-rectum