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Procedure price report · Forceps, vacuum, and breech delivery

Vaginal delivery with after-birth care only

CPT 59410the billing code this page is about

Covers the vaginal birth plus the mother's care after delivery, but not the prenatal visits during pregnancy.

Hospitals typically charge $2,168 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 567 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,203. Most fall between $1,325 and $3,341 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
567
States
50
Filings dated
Dec 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 567 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
$1,056$1,508$2,168$2,960$4,438

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,056 vs $4,438).

How the prices are spread

$768 – $937: 11 hospitals$768$937 – $1,142: 32 hospitals$1,142 – $1,393: 47 hospitals$1,142$1,393 – $1,698: 61 hospitals$1,698 – $2,070: 69 hospitals$1,698$2,070 – $2,524: 117 hospitals$2,524 – $3,078: 70 hospitals$2,524$3,078 – $3,753: 40 hospitals$3,753 – $4,576: 41 hospitals$3,753$4,576 – $5,579: 23 hospitals$4,576median $2,168price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (511 of 567 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$768$93711
$937$1,14232
$1,142$1,39347
$1,393$1,69861
$1,698$2,07069
$2,070$2,524117
$2,524$3,07870
$3,078$3,75340
$3,753$4,57641
$4,576$5,57923

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,168.

Alaska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $2,388 across 17 hospitalsWA$2,388Idaho: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: median $1,621 across 10 hospitalsMT$1,621North Dakota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,502 across 35 hospitalsMN$2,502Illinois: median $2,001 across 21 hospitalsIL$2,001Wisconsin: median $4,027 across 35 hospitalsWI$4,027Michigan: median $2,541 across 28 hospitalsMI$2,541New York: median $2,065 across 27 hospitalsNY$2,065Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,490 across 21 hospitalsOR$2,490Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,113 across 35 hospitalsIA$2,113Indiana: median $1,282 across 12 hospitalsIN$1,282Ohio: median $2,633 across 17 hospitalsOH$2,633Pennsylvania: median $2,061 across 38 hospitalsPA$2,061New Jersey: median $5,110 across 16 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $1,412 across 11 hospitalsCA$1,412Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $2,086 across 11 hospitalsCO$2,086Nebraska: median $1,766 across 18 hospitalsNE$1,766Missouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $1,887 across 11 hospitalsWV$1,887Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,010 across 20 hospitalsKS$2,010Arkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $2,233 across 12 hospitalsOK$2,233Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,426 across 15 hospitalsGA$2,426Hawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,165 across 19 hospitalsTX$2,165Florida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,168. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ16$5,110+136%$3,986 – $6,311
Wisconsin WI35$4,027+86%$2,257 – $4,438
Ohio OH17$2,633+21%$1,315 – $5,365
Michigan MI28$2,541+17%$1,508 – $2,541
Minnesota MN35$2,502+15%$1,517 – $3,360
Oregon OR21$2,490+15%$1,975 – $3,026
Georgia GA15$2,426+12%$1,332 – $11,459
Washington WA17$2,388+10%$1,944 – $3,392
Oklahoma OK12$2,233+3%$2,233 – $2,233
Texas TX19$2,1650%$1,859 – $2,168
Iowa IA35$2,113−3%$1,325 – $2,334
Colorado CO11$2,086−4%$1,477 – $2,993
New York NY27$2,065−5%$1,246 – $2,650
Pennsylvania PA38$2,061−5%$728 – $5,829
Kansas KS20$2,010−7%$1,509 – $2,374
Illinois IL21$2,001−8%$1,282 – $3,426
West Virginia WV11$1,887−13%$1,180 – $3,233
Nebraska NE18$1,766−19%$1,305 – $2,231
Montana MT10$1,621−25%$1,461 – $2,743
California CA11$1,412−35%$656 – $2,913
Indiana IN12$1,282−41%$1,199 – $2,391
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not 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 $2,168.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care339$2,168$1,297 – $3,295
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access221$2,168$1,496 – $3,263
Ownership
For-profit27$1,859$1,282 – $3,261
Government124$2,107$1,260 – $2,984
Non-profit416$2,218$1,421 – $3,429
System affiliation
Part of a system403$2,231$1,418 – $3,360
Independent164$2,112$1,279 – $3,182

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,038
Median cash price$2,168
Cash as a share of list, median hospital70%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 30%. 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

374 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,125 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,205; most fall between $1,311 and $3,374.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 374 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
$1,047$1,482$2,125$3,076$4,398

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,047 vs $4,398).

Of the 427 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 374 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 30 a list price only.

How complete is this

567 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 659 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted567
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here50
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded42
Hospitals that filed this code659

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 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 Forceps, vacuum, and breech delivery family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Vaginal Delivery Only W/Postpartum Care.

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, “Vaginal delivery with after-birth care only (CPT 59410) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-59410-vaginal-delivery-with-after-birth-care-only