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Procedure price report · Thyroidectomy, partial or complete

Total thyroid removal

CPT 60240the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove the entire thyroid gland.

Hospitals typically charge $5,200 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 761 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,170. Most fall between $1,758 and $16,239 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
761
States
49
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 761 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
$1,267$2,060$5,200$12,564$29,043

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,267 vs $29,043).

How the prices are spread

$937 – $1,339: 57 hospitals$937$1,339 – $1,915: 85 hospitals$1,915 – $2,739: 101 hospitals$1,915$2,739 – $3,917: 49 hospitals$3,917 – $5,601: 64 hospitals$3,917$5,601 – $8,010: 84 hospitals$8,010 – $11,455: 77 hospitals$8,010$11,455 – $16,381: 55 hospitals$16,381 – $23,425: 41 hospitals$16,381$23,425 – $33,499: 72 hospitals$23,425median $5,200price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (685 of 761 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$937$1,33957
$1,339$1,91585
$1,915$2,739101
$2,739$3,91749
$3,917$5,60164
$5,601$8,01084
$8,010$11,45577
$11,455$16,38155
$16,381$23,42541
$23,425$33,49972

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,176
Median cash price$5,200
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.84×

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 $5,200.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 8 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 $1,952 across 18 hospitalsWA$1,952Idaho: median $15,131 across 10 hospitalsID$15,131Montana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,788 across 30 hospitalsMN$2,788Illinois: median $2,262 across 30 hospitalsIL$2,262Wisconsin: median $5,200 across 36 hospitalsWI$5,200Michigan: median $2,518 across 40 hospitalsMI$2,518New York: median $6,904 across 55 hospitalsNY$6,904Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $2,194 across 22 hospitalsOR$2,194Nevada: 5 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 $2,262 across 31 hospitalsIA$2,262Indiana: median $2,198 across 23 hospitalsIN$2,198Ohio: median $24,367 across 33 hospitalsOH$24,367Pennsylvania: median $9,060 across 19 hospitalsPA$9,060New Jersey: median $6,458 across 34 hospitalsNJ$6,458Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $33,499 across 43 hospitalsCA$33,499Utah: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,129 across 16 hospitalsNE$2,129Missouri: median $11,480 across 19 hospitalsMO$11,480Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $2,551 across 20 hospitalsWV$2,551Virginia: median $20,790 across 13 hospitalsVA$20,790Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: median $2,228 across 18 hospitalsKS$2,228Arkansas: median $6,471 across 10 hospitalsAR$6,471Tennessee: median $7,171 across 13 hospitalsTN$7,171North Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,267 across 16 hospitalsOK$1,267Louisiana: median $6,920 across 17 hospitalsLA$6,920Mississippi: median $5,224 across 11 hospitalsMS$5,224Alabama: median $6,076 across 11 hospitalsAL$6,076Georgia: median $9,791 across 11 hospitalsGA$9,791Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $9,491 across 35 hospitalsTX$9,491Florida: median $5,856 across 14 hospitalsFL$5,856
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,200. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA43$33,499+544%$2,622 – $33,499
Ohio OH33$24,367+369%$3,211 – $34,961
Virginia VA13$20,790+300%$612 – $33,222
Idaho ID10$15,131+191%$9,557 – $15,131
Missouri MO19$11,480+121%$1,473 – $17,648
Georgia GA11$9,791+88%$4,709 – $9,791
Texas TX35$9,491+83%$4,893 – $17,880
Pennsylvania PA19$9,060+74%$1,751 – $19,221
Tennessee TN13$7,171+38%$882 – $13,837
Louisiana LA17$6,920+33%$4,668 – $13,590
New York NY55$6,904+33%$1,793 – $24,888
Arkansas AR10$6,471+24%$2,060 – $10,695
New Jersey NJ34$6,458+24%$5,110 – $7,785
Alabama AL11$6,076+17%$2,600 – $15,637
Florida FL14$5,856+13%$2,941 – $19,039
Mississippi MS11$5,2240%$3,516 – $11,930
Wisconsin WI36$5,2000%$3,393 – $9,630
Minnesota MN30$2,788−46%$1,555 – $6,296
West Virginia WV20$2,551−51%$986 – $11,207
Michigan MI40$2,518−52%$1,786 – $8,313
Iowa IA31$2,262−57%$1,687 – $3,032
Illinois IL30$2,262−57%$1,282 – $29,962
Kansas KS18$2,228−57%$1,077 – $8,022
Indiana IN23$2,198−58%$1,282 – $11,822
Oregon OR22$2,194−58%$1,684 – $2,336
Nebraska NE16$2,129−59%$1,815 – $7,652
Washington WA18$1,952−62%$1,602 – $21,511
Oklahoma OK16$1,267−76%$1,267 – $12,577
Montana MT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not 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 $5,200.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care580$6,841$1,874 – $20,901
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access168$2,325$1,494 – $5,574
Ownership
For-profit87$9,557$2,657 – $20,096
Government136$2,667$1,643 – $10,084
Non-profit536$5,200$1,751 – $17,009
System affiliation
Part of a system579$6,296$1,805 – $17,926
Independent182$2,722$1,602 – $10,261

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$5,744
Median cash price$5,200
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

324 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,262 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,268; most fall between $1,267 and $9,491.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 324 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
$838$1,282$2,262$6,076$15,131

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 18× what the cheapest tenth charges ($838 vs $15,131).

Of the 374 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 324 gave a usable cash price; 30 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 20 a list price only.

How complete is this

761 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (19%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 845 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted761
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here57
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded5
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded22
Hospitals that filed this code845

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 Thyroidectomy, partial or complete family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Thyroidectomy Total/Complete.

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, “Total thyroid removal (CPT 60240) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-60240-total-thyroid-removal