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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic obstetrical procedures including antepartum and postpartum care

Drainage of a vaginal blood clot after childbirth

CPT 57022the billing code this page is about

The doctor opens and drains a collection of blood in the vaginal wall that formed during or after delivery.

Hospitals typically charge $1,988 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 536 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,084. Most fall between $351 and $4,922 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
536
States
46
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 536 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
$257$439$1,988$3,986$5,828

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($257 vs $5,828).

How the prices are spread

$172 – $248: 25 hospitals$172$248 – $357: 60 hospitals$357 – $513: 41 hospitals$357$513 – $739: 29 hospitals$739 – $1,064: 44 hospitals$739$1,064 – $1,531: 19 hospitals$1,531 – $2,204: 34 hospitals$1,531$2,204 – $3,172: 63 hospitals$3,172 – $4,566: 80 hospitals$3,172$4,566 – $6,572: 91 hospitals$4,566median $1,988price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (486 of 536 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$172$24825
$248$35760
$357$51341
$513$73929
$739$1,06444
$1,064$1,53119
$1,531$2,20434
$2,204$3,17263
$3,172$4,56680
$4,566$6,57291

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,968
Median cash price$1,988
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.67×

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 $1,988.

Alaska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $4,250 across 24 hospitalsWA$4,250Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $551 across 20 hospitalsMN$551Illinois: median $439 across 21 hospitalsIL$439Wisconsin: median $745 across 23 hospitalsWI$745Michigan: median $962 across 28 hospitalsMI$962New York: median $3,387 across 35 hospitalsNY$3,387Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $441 across 27 hospitalsOR$441Nevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $439 across 20 hospitalsIA$439Indiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,513 across 30 hospitalsOH$2,513Pennsylvania: median $2,094 across 22 hospitalsPA$2,094New Jersey: median $3,786 across 26 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $3,323 across 65 hospitalsCA$3,323Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $1,240 across 14 hospitalsMO$1,240Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 9 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: median $5,489 across 11 hospitalsAZ$5,489New Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 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: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $300 across 12 hospitalsOK$300Louisiana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,735 across 34 hospitalsTX$1,735Florida: median $3,916 across 11 hospitalsFL$3,916
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,988. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ11$5,489+176%$3,565 – $5,489
Washington WA24$4,250+114%$929 – $5,968
Florida FL11$3,916+97%$3,141 – $5,895
New Jersey NJ26$3,786+90%$3,168 – $5,419
New York NY35$3,387+70%$268 – $3,448
California CA65$3,323+67%$1,801 – $5,522
Ohio OH30$2,513+26%$1,988 – $2,659
Pennsylvania PA22$2,094+5%$117 – $5,393
Texas TX34$1,735−13%$1,606 – $3,639
Missouri MO14$1,240−38%$166 – $2,295
Michigan MI28$962−52%$378 – $1,012
Wisconsin WI23$745−63%$745 – $1,474
Minnesota MN20$551−72%$309 – $724
Oregon OR27$441−78%$333 – $6,970
Iowa IA20$439−78%$406 – $2,236
Illinois IL21$439−78%$137 – $3,589
Oklahoma OK12$300−85%$300 – $300
Virginia VA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV1not 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 $1,988.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care439$2,513$358 – $5,065
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access91$724$344 – $2,628
Ownership
For-profit42$1,934$378 – $5,489
Government67$573$298 – $3,387
Non-profit426$2,238$364 – $5,060
System affiliation
Part of a system448$2,513$381 – $5,060
Independent88$530$268 – $2,873

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,650
Median cash price$1,988
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

366 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,253 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,253; most fall between $378 and $5,361.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 366 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
$270$445$2,253$4,553$5,854

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 22× what the cheapest tenth charges ($270 vs $5,854).

Of the 403 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 366 gave a usable cash price; 26 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

536 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (14%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 601 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted536
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
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 — excluded19
Hospitals that filed this code601

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 therapeutic obstetrical procedures including antepartum and postpartum care family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as I&D Vaginal Hematoma Obstetrical/Postpartum.

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, “Drainage of a vaginal blood clot after childbirth (CPT 57022) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-57022-drainage-of-a-vaginal-blood-clot-after-childbirth