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Procedure price report · Nonoperative removal of foreign body

Removal of a corneal foreign body using a slit lamp

CPT 65222the billing code this page is about

Removing a foreign object from the clear front surface of the eye with the aid of a slit lamp microscope.

Hospitals typically charge $242 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 2,277 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $254. Most fall between $125 and $443 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
2,277
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 2,277 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$140$242$386$629

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.6× what the cheapest tenth charges ($83 vs $629).

How the prices are spread

$65 – $85: 121 hospitals$65$85 – $111: 133 hospitals$111 – $144: 241 hospitals$111$144 – $189: 307 hospitals$189 – $246: 240 hospitals$189$246 – $321: 282 hospitals$321 – $419: 339 hospitals$321$419 – $547: 194 hospitals$547 – $714: 130 hospitals$547$714 – $933: 66 hospitals$714median $242price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (2,053 of 2,277 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$65$85121
$85$111133
$111$144241
$144$189307
$189$246240
$246$321282
$321$419339
$419$547194
$547$714130
$714$93366

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$136
Median cash price$242
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.78×

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 $242.

Alaska: median $338 across 15 hospitalsAK$338Maine: median $169 across 19 hospitalsME$169Vermont: median $274 across 12 hospitalsVT$274New Hampshire: median $147 across 19 hospitalsNH$147Washington: median $255 across 61 hospitalsWA$255Idaho: median $360 across 17 hospitalsID$360Montana: median $162 across 28 hospitalsMT$162North Dakota: median $182 across 16 hospitalsND$182Minnesota: median $181 across 79 hospitalsMN$181Illinois: median $272 across 91 hospitalsIL$272Wisconsin: median $228 across 96 hospitalsWI$228Michigan: median $236 across 68 hospitalsMI$236New York: median $220 across 93 hospitalsNY$220Massachusetts: median $262 across 41 hospitalsMA$262Oregon: median $188 across 49 hospitalsOR$188Nevada: median $239 across 15 hospitalsNV$239Wyoming: median $172 across 13 hospitalsWY$172South Dakota: median $215 across 18 hospitalsSD$215Iowa: median $173 across 57 hospitalsIA$173Indiana: median $286 across 44 hospitalsIN$286Ohio: median $372 across 99 hospitalsOH$372Pennsylvania: median $289 across 103 hospitalsPA$289New Jersey: median $440 across 49 hospitalsNJ$440Connecticut: median $265 across 17 hospitalsCT$265Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $520 across 132 hospitalsCA$520Utah: median $413 across 31 hospitalsUT$413Colorado: median $307 across 47 hospitalsCO$307Nebraska: median $194 across 45 hospitalsNE$194Missouri: median $148 across 45 hospitalsMO$148Kentucky: median $251 across 36 hospitalsKY$251West Virginia: median $178 across 37 hospitalsWV$178Virginia: median $178 across 54 hospitalsVA$178Maryland: 5 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 24 hospitalsAZ$163New Mexico: median $200 across 24 hospitalsNM$200Kansas: median $210 across 44 hospitalsKS$210Arkansas: median $161 across 24 hospitalsAR$161Tennessee: median $99 across 41 hospitalsTN$99North Carolina: median $184 across 51 hospitalsNC$184South Carolina: median $294 across 44 hospitalsSC$294Oklahoma: median $195 across 53 hospitalsOK$195Louisiana: median $144 across 44 hospitalsLA$144Mississippi: median $101 across 41 hospitalsMS$101Alabama: median $160 across 22 hospitalsAL$160Georgia: median $336 across 57 hospitalsGA$336Hawaii: median $386 across 15 hospitalsHI$386Texas: median $340 across 150 hospitalsTX$340Florida: median $357 across 81 hospitalsFL$357
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $242. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA132$520+115%$252 – $698
New Jersey NJ49$440+82%$152 – $4,350
Utah UT31$413+71%$273 – $442
Hawaii HI15$386+60%$260 – $510
Ohio OH99$372+54%$130 – $467
Idaho ID17$360+49%$98 – $442
Florida FL81$357+48%$166 – $912
Texas TX150$340+40%$146 – $505
Alaska AK15$338+40%$151 – $703
Georgia GA57$336+39%$105 – $405
Colorado CO47$307+27%$148 – $484
South Carolina SC44$294+22%$146 – $428
Pennsylvania PA103$289+20%$130 – $601
Indiana IN44$286+18%$160 – $469
Vermont VT12$274+13%$113 – $554
Illinois IL91$272+13%$187 – $439
Connecticut CT17$265+10%$189 – $408
Massachusetts MA41$262+8%$155 – $539
Washington WA61$255+5%$138 – $389
Kentucky KY36$251+4%$164 – $316
Nevada NV15$239−1%$137 – $388
Michigan MI68$236−2%$63 – $443
Wisconsin WI96$228−6%$112 – $333
New York NY93$220−9%$120 – $386
South Dakota SD18$215−11%$186 – $377
Kansas KS44$210−13%$125 – $579
New Mexico NM24$200−17%$74 – $584
Oklahoma OK53$195−19%$111 – $371
Nebraska NE45$194−20%$123 – $292
Oregon OR49$188−22%$113 – $314
North Carolina NC51$184−24%$124 – $296
North Dakota ND16$182−25%$133 – $285
Minnesota MN79$181−25%$112 – $354
West Virginia WV37$178−26%$142 – $335
Virginia VA54$178−27%$97 – $315
Iowa IA57$173−29%$124 – $281
Wyoming WY13$172−29%$117 – $450
Maine ME19$169−30%$74 – $220
Arizona AZ24$163−32%$76 – $907
Montana MT28$162−33%$90 – $241
Arkansas AR24$161−34%$123 – $236
Alabama AL22$160−34%$83 – $466
Missouri MO45$148−39%$98 – $325
New Hampshire NH19$147−39%$57 – $230
Louisiana LA44$144−40%$74 – $205
Mississippi MS41$101−58%$72 – $181
Tennessee TN41$99−59%$73 – $219
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD5not 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 $242.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,588$268$130 – $490
Children’s34$349$197 – $633
Critical access650$191$112 – $351
Ownership
For-profit225$306$140 – $608
Government428$184$111 – $370
Non-profit1,619$260$129 – $445
System affiliation
Part of a system1,817$262$132 – $460
Independent460$191$99 – $366

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$402
Median cash price$242
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,691 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $276 and the average of the middle 60% is $278; most fall between $130 and $473.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,691 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
$86$146$276$417$637

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($86 vs $637).

Of the 1,808 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,691 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 71 a list price only.

How complete is this

2,277 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (58%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 2,428 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted2,277
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here68
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded81
Hospitals that filed this code2,428

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 Nonoperative removal of foreign body family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rmvl FB Xtrnl Eye Corneal W/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 corneal foreign body using a slit lamp (CPT 65222) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65222-removal-of-a-corneal-foreign-body-using-a-slit-lamp