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Procedure price report · Other OR procedures on vessels of head and neck

Removal of a carotid body tumor, artery left intact

CPT 60600the billing code this page is about

Surgery to remove a tumor from the carotid body in the neck without removing or replacing the carotid artery itself.

Hospitals typically charge $2,588 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 196 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,950. Most fall between $1,856 and $5,110 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
196
States
38
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 196 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
$1,490$1,896$2,588$4,351$7,567

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 5.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,490 vs $7,567).

How the prices are spread

$869 – $1,139: 6 hospitals$869$1,139 – $1,493: 5 hospitals$1,493 – $1,958: 32 hospitals$1,493$1,958 – $2,567: 22 hospitals$2,567 – $3,366: 53 hospitals$2,567$3,366 – $4,413: 20 hospitals$4,413 – $5,786: 17 hospitals$4,413$5,786 – $7,586: 14 hospitals$7,586 – $9,946: 3 hospitals$7,586$9,946 – $13,040: 7 hospitals$9,946median $2,588price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (179 of 196 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$869$1,1396
$1,139$1,4935
$1,493$1,95832
$1,958$2,56722
$2,567$3,36653
$3,366$4,41320
$4,413$5,78617
$5,786$7,58614
$7,586$9,9463
$9,946$13,0407

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $2,588.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $2,029 across 11 hospitalsIL$2,029Wisconsin: median $2,588 across 18 hospitalsWI$2,588Michigan: median $2,587 across 25 hospitalsMI$2,587New York: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $3,357 across 15 hospitalsIA$3,357Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $5,023 across 11 hospitalsOH$5,023Pennsylvania: median $869 across 15 hospitalsPA$869New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSCOklahoma: median $1,896 across 10 hospitalsOK$1,896Louisiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,588. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+97%$4,350 – $5,855
Ohio OH11$5,023+94%$2,215 – $6,523
Iowa IA15$3,357+30%$3,357 – $3,357
Wisconsin WI18$2,5880%$2,588 – $13,040
Michigan MI25$2,5870%$1,856 – $2,587
Illinois IL11$2,029−22%$1,755 – $3,462
Oklahoma OK10$1,896−27%$1,896 – $1,896
Pennsylvania PA15$869−66%$150 – $4,065
Florida FL8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not 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 $2,588.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care160$2,600$1,767 – $5,110
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access31$2,588$2,278 – $3,467
Ownership
For-profit14fewer than 20 hospitals
Government28$3,033$2,278 – $8,218
Non-profit153$2,588$1,856 – $5,110
System affiliation
Part of a system160$2,588$1,856 – $5,339
Independent36$2,729$2,101 – $4,562

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,196
Median cash price$2,588
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

129 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,588 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,488; most fall between $1,755 and $3,360.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 129 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
$1,313$1,755$2,588$3,357$4,444

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 3.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,313 vs $4,444).

Of the 147 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 129 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 4 a list price only.

How complete is this

196 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 229 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted196
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here19
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 — excluded13
Hospitals that filed this code229

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 OR procedures on vessels of head and neck family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Excise Carotid Body Lesion.

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, “Removal of a carotid body tumor, artery left intact (CPT 60600) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-60600-removal-of-a-carotid-body-tumor-artery-left-intact