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Procedure price report · Thyroidectomy, partial or complete

Total thyroid removal for cancer with limited node removal

CPT 60252the billing code this page is about

Surgical removal of the whole thyroid gland for cancer, together with removal of a limited group of nearby lymph nodes in the neck.

Hospitals typically charge $5,741 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 532 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $6,189. Most fall between $2,415 and $14,992 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
532
States
47
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 532 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
$1,763$2,849$5,741$11,327$21,029

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,763 vs $21,029).

How the prices are spread

$1,232 – $1,704: 20 hospitals$1,232$1,704 – $2,356: 55 hospitals$2,356 – $3,257: 79 hospitals$2,356$3,257 – $4,503: 46 hospitals$4,503 – $6,225: 52 hospitals$4,503$6,225 – $8,606: 81 hospitals$8,606 – $11,899: 44 hospitals$8,606$11,899 – $16,451: 42 hospitals$16,451 – $22,744: 34 hospitals$16,451$22,744 – $31,444: 27 hospitals$22,744median $5,741price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (480 of 532 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,232$1,70420
$1,704$2,35655
$2,356$3,25779
$3,257$4,50346
$4,503$6,22552
$6,225$8,60681
$8,606$11,89944
$11,899$16,45142
$16,451$22,74434
$22,744$31,44427

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$6,048
Median cash price$5,741
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.95×

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 $5,741.

Alaska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $7,201 across 23 hospitalsMN$7,201Illinois: median $5,044 across 23 hospitalsIL$5,044Wisconsin: median $6,564 across 30 hospitalsWI$6,564Michigan: median $3,021 across 34 hospitalsMI$3,021New York: median $7,000 across 48 hospitalsNY$7,000Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $3,156 across 15 hospitalsOR$3,156Nevada: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 6 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 $3,254 across 26 hospitalsIA$3,254Indiana: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $5,723 across 18 hospitalsOH$5,723Pennsylvania: median $9,186 across 17 hospitalsPA$9,186New Jersey: median $6,548 across 32 hospitalsNJ$6,548Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $18,614 across 36 hospitalsCA$18,614Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: median $2,990 across 10 hospitalsNE$2,990Missouri: median $5,900 across 13 hospitalsMO$5,900Kentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 5 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $1,486 across 10 hospitalsTN$1,486North Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,821 across 14 hospitalsOK$1,821Louisiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $15,440 across 13 hospitalsGA$15,440Hawaii: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $9,244 across 25 hospitalsTX$9,244Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,741. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA36$18,614+224%$3,441 – $18,614
Georgia GA13$15,440+169%$3,016 – $15,440
Texas TX25$9,244+61%$5,917 – $10,061
Pennsylvania PA17$9,186+60%$3,908 – $15,144
Minnesota MN23$7,201+25%$3,191 – $8,449
New York NY48$7,000+22%$2,588 – $24,888
Wisconsin WI30$6,564+14%$4,883 – $13,542
New Jersey NJ32$6,548+14%$5,110 – $7,894
Missouri MO13$5,900+3%$2,018 – $17,746
Ohio OH18$5,7230%$2,657 – $33,946
Illinois IL23$5,044−12%$1,763 – $37,241
Iowa IA26$3,254−43%$2,467 – $3,254
Oregon OR15$3,156−45%$2,415 – $3,159
Michigan MI34$3,021−47%$1,975 – $8,140
Nebraska NE10$2,990−48%$2,525 – $3,063
Oklahoma OK14$1,821−68%$1,821 – $11,853
Tennessee TN10$1,486−74%$1,198 – $8,117
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not 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

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 $5,741.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care422$6,433$2,415 – $16,320
Children’s9fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access100$3,814$2,018 – $8,449
Ownership
For-profit53$8,540$1,975 – $15,440
Government81$3,739$2,257 – $9,109
Non-profit397$5,855$2,525 – $15,440
System affiliation
Part of a system426$6,548$2,588 – $15,519
Independent106$3,531$2,118 – $9,109

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$6,042
Median cash price$5,741
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

271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $3,254 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,987; most fall between $1,765 and $9,244.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 271 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
$1,354$1,879$3,254$7,019$15,440

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,354 vs $15,440).

Of the 305 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 271 gave a usable cash price; 24 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 10 a list price only.

How complete is this

532 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 593 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted532
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here46
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code593

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 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 Thyroidectomy Total/Subtotal Lmtd Neck Dissect.

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 for cancer with limited node removal (CPT 60252) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-60252-total-thyroid-removal-for-cancer-with-limited-node-removal