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Procedure price report · Abortion (termination of pregnancy)

Pregnancy termination using vaginal medication inserts

CPT 59855the billing code this page is about

Ends a pregnancy using one or more vaginal suppositories, with or without opening the cervix, and includes hospital admission, visits, and delivery of the fetus and placenta.

Hospitals typically charge $1,286 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 524 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,432. Most fall between $727 and $2,683 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
524
States
47
Filings dated
Jan 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 524 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
$591$794$1,286$2,308$4,328

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($591 vs $4,328).

How the prices are spread

$445 – $576: 24 hospitals$445$576 – $745: 59 hospitals$745 – $964: 73 hospitals$745$964 – $1,247: 73 hospitals$1,247 – $1,613: 50 hospitals$1,247$1,613 – $2,087: 71 hospitals$2,087 – $2,700: 46 hospitals$2,087$2,700 – $3,493: 23 hospitals$3,493 – $4,520: 30 hospitals$3,493$4,520 – $5,848: 23 hospitals$4,520median $1,286price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (472 of 524 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$445$57624
$576$74559
$745$96473
$964$1,24773
$1,247$1,61350
$1,613$2,08771
$2,087$2,70046
$2,700$3,49323
$3,493$4,52030
$4,520$5,84823

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $1,286.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $889 across 10 hospitalsWA$889Idaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,108 across 27 hospitalsMN$1,108Illinois: median $770 across 16 hospitalsIL$770Wisconsin: median $1,611 across 27 hospitalsWI$1,611Michigan: median $797 across 29 hospitalsMI$797New York: median $727 across 22 hospitalsNY$727Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,006 across 18 hospitalsOR$1,006Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 7 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 $1,018 across 24 hospitalsIA$1,018Indiana: median $602 across 11 hospitalsIN$602Ohio: median $1,882 across 35 hospitalsOH$1,882Pennsylvania: median $5,660 across 13 hospitalsPA$5,660New Jersey: median $4,881 across 14 hospitalsNJ$4,881Connecticut: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $816 across 11 hospitalsCA$816Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: median $999 across 18 hospitalsCO$999Nebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,513 across 22 hospitalsVA$1,513Maryland: 6 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $895 across 12 hospitalsOK$895Louisiana: median $999 across 22 hospitalsLA$999Mississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,308 across 57 hospitalsTX$2,308Florida: median $1,869 across 18 hospitalsFL$1,869
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,286. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Pennsylvania PA13$5,660+340%$1,714 – $5,950
New Jersey NJ14$4,881+280%$3,986 – $5,855
Texas TX57$2,308+79%$1,998 – $3,668
Ohio OH35$1,882+46%$1,672 – $3,842
Florida FL18$1,869+45%$1,835 – $6,717
Wisconsin WI27$1,611+25%$471 – $3,492
Virginia VA22$1,513+18%$1,513 – $1,882
Minnesota MN27$1,108−14%$993 – $1,903
Iowa IA24$1,018−21%$772 – $1,022
Oregon OR18$1,006−22%$782 – $2,089
Colorado CO18$999−22%$746 – $1,711
Louisiana LA22$999−22%$403 – $1,341
Oklahoma OK12$895−30%$895 – $895
Washington WA10$889−31%$712 – $1,052
California CA11$816−37%$635 – $1,052
Michigan MI29$797−38%$608 – $821
Illinois IL16$770−40%$602 – $3,326
New York NY22$727−43%$607 – $3,523
Indiana IN11$602−53%$524 – $827
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not 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 $1,286.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care396$1,611$762 – $3,109
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access117$988$675 – $1,611
Ownership
For-profit33$1,611$602 – $2,910
Government93$988$680 – $1,530
Non-profit393$1,607$762 – $3,109
System affiliation
Part of a system426$1,540$762 – $3,109
Independent98$980$652 – $2,001

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,720
Median cash price$1,286
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

373 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,381 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,433; most fall between $727 and $2,418.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 373 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
$579$790$1,381$2,272$3,668

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($579 vs $3,668).

Of the 410 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 373 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

524 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 608 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted524
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here49
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 — excluded34
Hospitals that filed this code608

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 Abortion (termination of pregnancy) family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Induced Abort 1/> Vag Suppositories Dlvr Fetus.

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, “Pregnancy termination using vaginal medication inserts (CPT 59855) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-59855-pregnancy-termination-using-vaginal-medication-inserts