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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Removal of a foreign body from the cornea

CPT 65220the billing code this page is about

Removing a foreign object from the clear front surface of the eye without using a slit lamp microscope.

Hospitals typically charge $310 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,501 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $317. Most fall between $120 and $577 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,501
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 2,501 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
$78$146$310$505$906

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($78 vs $906).

How the prices are spread

$59 – $79: 130 hospitals$59$79 – $107: 178 hospitals$107 – $145: 191 hospitals$107$145 – $196: 217 hospitals$196 – $266: 291 hospitals$196$266 – $359: 280 hospitals$359 – $486: 427 hospitals$359$486 – $658: 285 hospitals$658 – $890: 121 hospitals$658$890 – $1,204: 133 hospitals$890median $310price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,253 of 2,501 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$59$79130
$79$107178
$107$145191
$145$196217
$196$266291
$266$359280
$359$486427
$486$658285
$658$890121
$890$1,204133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$456
Median cash price$310
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $310.

Alaska: median $335 across 15 hospitalsAK$335Maine: median $163 across 22 hospitalsME$163Vermont: median $168 across 12 hospitalsVT$168New Hampshire: median $130 across 20 hospitalsNH$130Washington: median $242 across 63 hospitalsWA$242Idaho: median $221 across 22 hospitalsID$221Montana: median $131 across 31 hospitalsMT$131North Dakota: median $410 across 24 hospitalsND$410Minnesota: median $318 across 92 hospitalsMN$318Illinois: median $316 across 108 hospitalsIL$316Wisconsin: median $228 across 95 hospitalsWI$228Michigan: median $348 across 69 hospitalsMI$348New York: median $472 across 93 hospitalsNY$472Massachusetts: median $346 across 41 hospitalsMA$346Oregon: median $155 across 50 hospitalsOR$155Nevada: median $364 across 17 hospitalsNV$364Wyoming: median $190 across 14 hospitalsWY$190South Dakota: median $214 across 31 hospitalsSD$214Iowa: median $173 across 79 hospitalsIA$173Indiana: median $426 across 49 hospitalsIN$426Ohio: median $422 across 98 hospitalsOH$422Pennsylvania: median $409 across 106 hospitalsPA$409New Jersey: median $884 across 50 hospitalsNJ$884Connecticut: median $220 across 17 hospitalsCT$220Rhode Island: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $592 across 131 hospitalsCA$592Utah: median $437 across 32 hospitalsUT$437Colorado: median $301 across 50 hospitalsCO$301Nebraska: median $167 across 61 hospitalsNE$167Missouri: median $181 across 49 hospitalsMO$181Kentucky: median $292 across 44 hospitalsKY$292West Virginia: median $496 across 39 hospitalsWV$496Virginia: median $315 across 55 hospitalsVA$315Maryland: 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 $190 across 28 hospitalsAZ$190New Mexico: median $291 across 24 hospitalsNM$291Kansas: median $228 across 69 hospitalsKS$228Arkansas: median $178 across 27 hospitalsAR$178Tennessee: median $116 across 46 hospitalsTN$116North Carolina: median $211 across 50 hospitalsNC$211South Carolina: median $253 across 44 hospitalsSC$253Oklahoma: median $172 across 64 hospitalsOK$172Louisiana: median $166 across 43 hospitalsLA$166Mississippi: median $183 across 51 hospitalsMS$183Alabama: median $268 across 27 hospitalsAL$268Georgia: median $312 across 69 hospitalsGA$312Hawaii: median $526 across 16 hospitalsHI$526Texas: median $420 across 164 hospitalsTX$420Florida: median $869 across 86 hospitalsFL$869
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $310. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ50$884+185%$470 – $3,986
Florida FL86$869+181%$286 – $1,609
California CA131$592+91%$344 – $864
Hawaii HI16$526+70%$472 – $953
West Virginia WV39$496+60%$122 – $808
New York NY93$472+52%$119 – $903
Utah UT32$437+41%$363 – $482
Indiana IN49$426+38%$218 – $688
Ohio OH98$422+36%$213 – $574
Texas TX164$420+36%$206 – $598
North Dakota ND24$410+32%$109 – $854
Pennsylvania PA106$409+32%$159 – $606
Nevada NV17$364+18%$193 – $616
Michigan MI69$348+12%$39 – $580
Massachusetts MA41$346+12%$155 – $630
Alaska AK15$335+8%$231 – $525
Minnesota MN92$318+3%$110 – $444
Illinois IL108$316+2%$141 – $529
Virginia VA55$315+2%$173 – $577
Georgia GA69$312+1%$124 – $1,042
Colorado CO50$301−3%$97 – $425
Kentucky KY44$292−6%$164 – $440
New Mexico NM24$291−6%$161 – $444
Alabama AL27$268−13%$79 – $499
South Carolina SC44$253−18%$205 – $408
Washington WA63$242−22%$109 – $545
Kansas KS69$228−27%$95 – $545
Wisconsin WI95$228−27%$107 – $355
Idaho ID22$221−29%$92 – $1,025
Connecticut CT17$220−29%$160 – $593
South Dakota SD31$214−31%$121 – $360
North Carolina NC50$211−32%$192 – $416
Arizona AZ28$190−39%$68 – $817
Wyoming WY14$190−39%$53 – $542
Mississippi MS51$183−41%$83 – $479
Missouri MO49$181−42%$105 – $358
Arkansas AR27$178−43%$96 – $216
Iowa IA79$173−44%$100 – $351
Oklahoma OK64$172−45%$66 – $420
Vermont VT12$168−46%$112 – $498
Nebraska NE61$167−46%$123 – $382
Louisiana LA43$166−46%$83 – $347
Maine ME22$163−47%$62 – $212
Oregon OR50$155−50%$84 – $362
Montana MT31$131−58%$62 – $270
New Hampshire NH20$130−58%$45 – $258
Tennessee TN46$116−63%$73 – $268
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 $310.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,643$378$158 – $655
Children’s36$362$173 – $664
Critical access817$181$92 – $410
Ownership
For-profit256$422$170 – $864
Government525$210$100 – $472
Non-profit1,715$326$126 – $574
System affiliation
Part of a system1,983$336$132 – $591
Independent518$212$95 – $511

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$491
Median cash price$310
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

1,849 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $322 and the average of the middle 60% is $330; most fall between $133 and $586.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,849 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
$83$162$322$526$917

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $917).

Of the 1,971 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,849 gave a usable cash price; 48 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 74 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,501 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (63%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,665 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,501
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here73
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded88
Hospitals that filed this code2,665

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 Rmvl FB Xtrnl Eye Corneal W/O Slit Lamp.

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 foreign body from the cornea (CPT 65220) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65220-removal-of-a-foreign-body-from-the-cornea