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Procedure price report · Thyroidectomy, partial or complete

Partial removal of one thyroid lobe plus most of the other

CPT 60212the billing code this page is about

Surgery removing part of one side of the thyroid gland along with most of the opposite side in the same operation.

Hospitals typically charge $3,515 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 319 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $4,388. Most fall between $1,616 and $9,286 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
319
States
45
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 319 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
$1,239$1,723$3,515$7,559$14,510

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,239 vs $14,510).

How the prices are spread

$847 – $1,130: 13 hospitals$847$1,130 – $1,508: 23 hospitals$1,508 – $2,011: 58 hospitals$1,508$2,011 – $2,683: 40 hospitals$2,683 – $3,580: 11 hospitals$2,683$3,580 – $4,776: 28 hospitals$4,776 – $6,372: 20 hospitals$4,776$6,372 – $8,501: 42 hospitals$8,501 – $11,341: 28 hospitals$8,501$11,341 – $15,131: 27 hospitals$11,341median $3,515price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (290 of 319 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$847$1,13013
$1,130$1,50823
$1,508$2,01158
$2,011$2,68340
$2,683$3,58011
$3,580$4,77628
$4,776$6,37220
$6,372$8,50142
$8,501$11,34128
$11,341$15,13127

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$3,515
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.57×

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 $3,515.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,591 across 12 hospitalsIL$1,591Wisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,866 across 26 hospitalsMI$1,866New York: median $6,904 across 22 hospitalsNY$6,904Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,508 across 18 hospitalsIA$2,508Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,272 across 13 hospitalsOH$4,272Pennsylvania: median $2,653 across 21 hospitalsPA$2,653New Jersey: median $6,458 across 29 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $14,510 across 25 hospitalsCA$14,510Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWVVirginia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,688 across 13 hospitalsOK$1,688Louisiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $9,286 across 21 hospitalsTX$9,286Florida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,515. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA25$14,510+313%$2,437 – $14,510
Texas TX21$9,286+164%$9,286 – $9,286
New York NY22$6,904+96%$3,115 – $7,176
New Jersey NJ29$6,458+84%$5,110 – $7,785
Ohio OH13$4,272+22%$2,495 – $27,237
Pennsylvania PA21$2,653−25%$166 – $9,060
Iowa IA18$2,508−29%$2,081 – $2,508
Michigan MI26$1,866−47%$1,509 – $1,901
Oklahoma OK13$1,688−52%$1,688 – $10,287
Illinois IL12$1,591−55%$1,305 – $3,669
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $3,515.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care259$4,272$1,688 – $9,286
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access53$2,233$1,418 – $3,726
Ownership
For-profit31$6,230$1,305 – $10,303
Government46$2,378$1,741 – $6,904
Non-profit241$3,726$1,591 – $9,286
System affiliation
Part of a system261$3,786$1,688 – $9,286
Independent58$2,116$1,582 – $4,824

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,610
Median cash price$3,515
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

188 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,229 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,192; most fall between $1,305 and $9,286.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 188 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
$918$1,470$2,229$9,286$14,510

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($918 vs $14,510).

Of the 212 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 188 gave a usable cash price; 17 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

319 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (8%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 362 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted319
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here36
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 — excluded7
Hospitals that filed this code362

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 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Thyroidectomy, partial or complete family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Prtl Thyroid Lobec Uni W/Contratlat Stot Lobec.

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, “Partial removal of one thyroid lobe plus most of the other (CPT 60212) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-60212-partial-removal-of-one-thyroid-lobe-plus-most-of-the-other