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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Removal of a surface foreign body from the eye

CPT 65205the billing code this page is about

Removing a loose foreign object sitting on the surface membrane of the eye, without cutting into tissue.

Hospitals typically charge $185 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,524 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $205. Most fall between $90 and $383 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,524
States
50
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 2,524 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
$62$104$185$341$516

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($62 vs $516).

How the prices are spread

$43 – $57: 93 hospitals$43$57 – $75: 164 hospitals$75 – $100: 212 hospitals$75$100 – $132: 264 hospitals$132 – $175: 334 hospitals$132$175 – $232: 303 hospitals$232 – $308: 286 hospitals$232$308 – $409: 309 hospitals$409 – $543: 203 hospitals$409$543 – $720: 105 hospitals$543median $185price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,273 of 2,524 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$43$5793
$57$75164
$75$100212
$100$132264
$132$175334
$175$232303
$232$308286
$308$409309
$409$543203
$543$720105

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$185
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.36×

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 $185.

Alaska: median $320 across 15 hospitalsAK$320Maine: median $117 across 22 hospitalsME$117Vermont: median $140 across 12 hospitalsVT$140New Hampshire: median $97 across 19 hospitalsNH$97Washington: median $200 across 63 hospitalsWA$200Idaho: median $189 across 20 hospitalsID$189Montana: median $114 across 30 hospitalsMT$114North Dakota: median $169 across 28 hospitalsND$169Minnesota: median $148 across 89 hospitalsMN$148Illinois: median $188 across 107 hospitalsIL$188Wisconsin: median $151 across 97 hospitalsWI$151Michigan: median $178 across 69 hospitalsMI$178New York: median $166 across 94 hospitalsNY$166Massachusetts: median $243 across 41 hospitalsMA$243Oregon: median $128 across 50 hospitalsOR$128Nevada: median $144 across 16 hospitalsNV$144Wyoming: median $163 across 13 hospitalsWY$163South Dakota: median $183 across 27 hospitalsSD$183Iowa: median $132 across 80 hospitalsIA$132Indiana: median $219 across 48 hospitalsIN$219Ohio: median $310 across 97 hospitalsOH$310Pennsylvania: median $197 across 110 hospitalsPA$197New Jersey: median $534 across 49 hospitalsNJ$534Connecticut: median $155 across 17 hospitalsCT$155Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $403 across 132 hospitalsCA$403Utah: median $394 across 32 hospitalsUT$394Colorado: median $152 across 49 hospitalsCO$152Nebraska: median $111 across 67 hospitalsNE$111Missouri: median $124 across 50 hospitalsMO$124Kentucky: median $191 across 43 hospitalsKY$191West Virginia: median $154 across 40 hospitalsWV$154Virginia: median $178 across 54 hospitalsVA$178Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $163 across 29 hospitalsAZ$163New Mexico: median $196 across 25 hospitalsNM$196Kansas: median $125 across 74 hospitalsKS$125Arkansas: median $126 across 24 hospitalsAR$126Tennessee: median $104 across 45 hospitalsTN$104North Carolina: median $151 across 54 hospitalsNC$151South Carolina: median $278 across 44 hospitalsSC$278Oklahoma: median $125 across 64 hospitalsOK$125Louisiana: median $131 across 47 hospitalsLA$131Mississippi: median $99 across 50 hospitalsMS$99Alabama: median $139 across 26 hospitalsAL$139Georgia: median $173 across 78 hospitalsGA$173Hawaii: median $312 across 15 hospitalsHI$312Texas: median $340 across 168 hospitalsTX$340Florida: median $453 across 87 hospitalsFL$453
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $185. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ49$534+189%$152 – $4,350
Florida FL87$453+145%$240 – $1,252
California CA132$403+118%$200 – $672
Utah UT32$394+113%$195 – $442
Texas TX168$340+84%$116 – $476
Alaska AK15$320+73%$110 – $380
Hawaii HI15$312+69%$258 – $386
Ohio OH97$310+68%$127 – $385
South Carolina SC44$278+51%$139 – $493
Massachusetts MA41$243+31%$169 – $516
Indiana IN48$219+19%$146 – $309
Washington WA63$200+8%$96 – $328
Pennsylvania PA110$197+7%$83 – $409
New Mexico NM25$196+6%$122 – $267
Kentucky KY43$191+4%$94 – $263
Idaho ID20$189+2%$59 – $360
Illinois IL107$188+2%$106 – $403
South Dakota SD27$183−1%$88 – $297
Michigan MI69$178−4%$38 – $419
Virginia VA54$178−4%$73 – $399
Georgia GA78$173−7%$99 – $318
North Dakota ND28$169−9%$82 – $280
New York NY94$166−10%$80 – $338
Arizona AZ29$163−12%$32 – $907
Wyoming WY13$163−12%$37 – $428
Connecticut CT17$155−16%$130 – $217
West Virginia WV40$154−17%$109 – $263
Colorado CO49$152−18%$79 – $375
Wisconsin WI97$151−18%$114 – $209
North Carolina NC54$151−19%$117 – $282
Minnesota MN89$148−20%$80 – $273
Nevada NV16$144−22%$99 – $259
Vermont VT12$140−24%$112 – $361
Alabama AL26$139−25%$78 – $247
Iowa IA80$132−29%$76 – $278
Louisiana LA47$131−29%$63 – $196
Oregon OR50$128−31%$51 – $231
Arkansas AR24$126−32%$63 – $216
Oklahoma OK64$125−32%$73 – $294
Kansas KS74$125−32%$83 – $323
Missouri MO50$124−33%$88 – $316
Maine ME22$117−37%$52 – $189
Montana MT30$114−39%$57 – $200
Nebraska NE67$111−40%$81 – $207
Tennessee TN45$104−44%$61 – $224
Mississippi MS50$99−46%$53 – $181
New Hampshire NH19$97−48%$31 – $171
Rhode Island RI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not 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 $185.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,657$217$104 – $436
Children’s37$201$108 – $555
Critical access825$138$74 – $263
Ownership
For-profit264$280$116 – $571
Government538$151$81 – $292
Non-profit1,717$190$90 – $384
System affiliation
Part of a system2,001$198$94 – $399
Independent523$141$76 – $309

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$319
Median cash price$185
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

1,863 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $208 and the average of the middle 60% is $225; most fall between $99 and $386.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,863 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
$66$117$208$360$501

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($66 vs $501).

Of the 1,995 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,863 gave a usable cash price; 51 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 81 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,524 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (64%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,700 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,524
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here76
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded6
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded94
Hospitals that filed this code2,700

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 July 20, 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 Nonoperative removal of foreign body family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as PR Remv F.B.,Eye,Superf Conjunc.

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 surface foreign body from the eye (CPT 65205) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65205-removal-of-a-surface-foreign-body-from-the-eye