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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic endocrine procedures

Open removal of an adrenal gland, with exploration

CPT 60540the billing code this page is about

Open surgery through the abdomen, flank, or back to remove one adrenal gland or a nearby tumor, including exploration of the area and biopsy if done.

Hospitals typically charge $2,627 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 261 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,792. Most fall between $1,676 and $5,154 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
261
States
42
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 261 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
$1,361$1,777$2,627$4,426$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,361 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$1,058 – $1,310: 12 hospitals$1,058$1,310 – $1,622: 22 hospitals$1,622 – $2,009: 39 hospitals$1,622$2,009 – $2,488: 33 hospitals$2,488 – $3,081: 51 hospitals$2,488$3,081 – $3,815: 16 hospitals$3,815 – $4,725: 11 hospitals$3,815$4,725 – $5,852: 33 hospitals$5,852 – $7,247: 9 hospitals$5,852$7,247 – $8,975: 10 hospitals$7,247median $2,627price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (236 of 261 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$1,058$1,31012
$1,310$1,62222
$1,622$2,00939
$2,009$2,48833
$2,488$3,08151
$3,081$3,81516
$3,815$4,72511
$4,725$5,85233
$5,852$7,2479
$7,247$8,97510

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,627.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,983 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,983Wisconsin: median $5,335 across 18 hospitalsWI$5,335Michigan: median $2,627 across 26 hospitalsMI$2,627New York: median $1,586 across 12 hospitalsNY$1,586Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,977 across 10 hospitalsOR$1,977Nevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $2,643 across 16 hospitalsIA$2,643Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $4,327 across 11 hospitalsOH$4,327Pennsylvania: median $2,817 across 12 hospitalsPA$2,817New Jersey: median $5,741 across 19 hospitalsNJ$5,741Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,229 across 31 hospitalsCA$2,229Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $1,777 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,777Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,627. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ19$5,741+119%$4,350 – $13,892
Wisconsin WI18$5,335+103%$5,335 – $8,975
Ohio OH11$4,327+65%$1,702 – $5,154
Pennsylvania PA12$2,817+7%$2,449 – $5,660
Iowa IA16$2,643+1%$2,643 – $2,643
Michigan MI26$2,6270%$1,507 – $2,776
California CA31$2,229−15%$2,128 – $2,229
Illinois IL13$1,983−25%$1,461 – $4,775
Oregon OR10$1,977−25%$1,977 – $2,554
Oklahoma OK10$1,777−32%$1,777 – $1,777
New York NY12$1,586−40%$957 – $3,283
Texas TX7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $2,627.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care208$2,627$1,675 – $5,154
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access45$2,643$1,741 – $5,335
Ownership
For-profit24$2,776$1,461 – $5,335
Government35$2,283$1,760 – $3,496
Non-profit201$2,627$1,675 – $5,335
System affiliation
Part of a system211$2,627$1,676 – $5,335
Independent50$2,151$1,651 – $3,952

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,849
Median cash price$2,627
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

184 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,229 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,327; most fall between $1,528 and $3,496.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 184 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
$1,250$1,777$2,229$3,041$5,335

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 4.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,250 vs $5,335).

Of the 208 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 184 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

261 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 316 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted261
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here37
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 — excluded17
Hospitals that filed this code316

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 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 Other therapeutic endocrine procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Adrenalectomy W/Expl W/WO Bx Abdl/Lmbr/Drsal Spx.

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, “Open removal of an adrenal gland, with exploration (CPT 60540) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-60540-open-removal-of-an-adrenal-gland-with-exploration