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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea

Removal of an embedded foreign body from the eye surface

CPT 65210the billing code this page is about

Removing a foreign object or deposit lodged in the membrane covering the eye or in the white of the eye, where the eye wall is not punctured.

Hospitals typically charge $330 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,856 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $335. Most fall between $133 and $606 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,856
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 1,856 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
$85$152$330$540$959

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($85 vs $959).

How the prices are spread

$62 – $84: 90 hospitals$62$84 – $115: 136 hospitals$115 – $157: 167 hospitals$115$157 – $214: 179 hospitals$214 – $291: 166 hospitals$214$291 – $397: 262 hospitals$397 – $541: 301 hospitals$397$541 – $737: 191 hospitals$737 – $1,005: 99 hospitals$737$1,005 – $1,369: 87 hospitals$1,005median $330price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,678 of 1,856 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$62$8490
$84$115136
$115$157167
$157$214179
$214$291166
$291$397262
$397$541301
$541$737191
$737$1,00599
$1,005$1,36987

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$456
Median cash price$330
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.72×

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 $330.

Alaska: median $410 across 13 hospitalsAK$410Maine: median $171 across 18 hospitalsME$171Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $148 across 15 hospitalsNH$148Washington: median $352 across 51 hospitalsWA$352Idaho: median $361 across 17 hospitalsID$361Montana: median $165 across 22 hospitalsMT$165North Dakota: median $410 across 20 hospitalsND$410Minnesota: median $268 across 53 hospitalsMN$268Illinois: median $385 across 81 hospitalsIL$385Wisconsin: median $188 across 71 hospitalsWI$188Michigan: median $260 across 58 hospitalsMI$260New York: median $472 across 76 hospitalsNY$472Massachusetts: median $390 across 33 hospitalsMA$390Oregon: median $151 across 39 hospitalsOR$151Nevada: median $242 across 14 hospitalsNV$242Wyoming: median $186 across 12 hospitalsWY$186South Dakota: median $259 across 16 hospitalsSD$259Iowa: median $188 across 49 hospitalsIA$188Indiana: median $165 across 37 hospitalsIN$165Ohio: median $393 across 66 hospitalsOH$393Pennsylvania: median $468 across 77 hospitalsPA$468New Jersey: median $920 across 39 hospitalsNJ$920Connecticut: median $424 across 17 hospitalsCT$424Rhode Island: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $622 across 119 hospitalsCA$622Utah: median $401 across 25 hospitalsUT$401Colorado: median $320 across 38 hospitalsCO$320Nebraska: median $140 across 42 hospitalsNE$140Missouri: median $127 across 36 hospitalsMO$127Kentucky: median $219 across 31 hospitalsKY$219West Virginia: median $475 across 31 hospitalsWV$475Virginia: median $411 across 49 hospitalsVA$411Maryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $756 across 21 hospitalsAZ$756New Mexico: median $372 across 14 hospitalsNM$372Kansas: median $163 across 49 hospitalsKS$163Arkansas: median $178 across 14 hospitalsAR$178Tennessee: median $144 across 28 hospitalsTN$144North Carolina: median $212 across 44 hospitalsNC$212South Carolina: median $480 across 40 hospitalsSC$480Oklahoma: median $244 across 36 hospitalsOK$244Louisiana: median $166 across 34 hospitalsLA$166Mississippi: median $172 across 35 hospitalsMS$172Alabama: median $146 across 14 hospitalsAL$146Georgia: median $365 across 41 hospitalsGA$365Hawaii: median $500 across 12 hospitalsHI$500Texas: median $419 across 130 hospitalsTX$419Florida: median $544 across 60 hospitalsFL$544
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $330. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ39$920+179%$442 – $4,881
Arizona AZ21$756+129%$190 – $1,018
California CA119$622+88%$342 – $932
Florida FL60$544+65%$166 – $1,609
Hawaii HI12$500+51%$331 – $989
South Carolina SC40$480+45%$262 – $480
West Virginia WV31$475+44%$37 – $606
New York NY76$472+43%$146 – $922
Pennsylvania PA77$468+42%$143 – $742
Connecticut CT17$424+28%$222 – $653
Texas TX130$419+27%$284 – $585
Virginia VA49$411+24%$144 – $577
North Dakota ND20$410+24%$111 – $549
Alaska AK13$410+24%$216 – $761
Utah UT25$401+21%$329 – $438
Ohio OH66$393+19%$189 – $979
Massachusetts MA33$390+18%$210 – $626
Illinois IL81$385+17%$143 – $566
New Mexico NM14$372+13%$219 – $550
Georgia GA41$365+11%$152 – $426
Idaho ID17$361+9%$79 – $1,025
Washington WA51$352+7%$110 – $591
Colorado CO38$320−3%$177 – $552
Minnesota MN53$268−19%$97 – $393
Michigan MI58$260−21%$161 – $614
South Dakota SD16$259−22%$114 – $342
Oklahoma OK36$244−26%$133 – $569
Nevada NV14$242−27%$128 – $485
Kentucky KY31$219−34%$154 – $386
North Carolina NC44$212−36%$184 – $491
Wisconsin WI71$188−43%$138 – $322
Iowa IA49$188−43%$93 – $399
Wyoming WY12$186−44%$100 – $330
Arkansas AR14$178−46%$123 – $496
Mississippi MS35$172−48%$61 – $244
Maine ME18$171−48%$61 – $305
Louisiana LA34$166−50%$110 – $401
Montana MT22$165−50%$53 – $270
Indiana IN37$165−50%$104 – $460
Kansas KS49$163−51%$90 – $356
Oregon OR39$151−54%$73 – $285
New Hampshire NH15$148−55%$38 – $226
Alabama AL14$146−56%$53 – $402
Tennessee TN28$144−56%$140 – $240
Nebraska NE42$140−58%$91 – $286
Missouri MO36$127−61%$96 – $574
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not 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 $330.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,285$398$167 – $655
Children’s30$342$142 – $791
Critical access539$184$93 – $401
Ownership
For-profit169$419$163 – $967
Government349$225$100 – $472
Non-profit1,336$345$138 – $606
System affiliation
Part of a system1,472$362$144 – $620
Independent384$219$97 – $455

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$525
Median cash price$330
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

1,389 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $353 and the average of the middle 60% is $361; most fall between $158 and $620.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,389 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
$102$186$353$562$986

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($102 vs $986).

Of the 1,493 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,389 gave a usable cash price; 46 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 58 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,856 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (47%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,991 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,856
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here69
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded66
Hospitals that filed this code1,991

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 Other therapeutic procedures on eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rmvl FB Xtrnl Eye Embed Scjncl/Scleral Nonperfor.

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 an embedded foreign body from the eye surface (CPT 65210) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65210-removal-of-an-embedded-foreign-body-from-the-eye-surface