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Procedure price report · Other intraocular therapeutic procedures

Removal of a nonmagnetic foreign object from back of eye

CPT 65265the billing code this page is about

Surgery to take out a foreign body that cannot be lifted with a magnet from the rear portion of the inside of the eye.

Hospitals typically charge $2,800 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 256 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,094. Most fall between $1,790 and $4,881 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
256
States
42
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 256 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
$1,090$1,983$2,800$4,190$6,535

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.0× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,090 vs $6,535).

How the prices are spread

$715 – $894: 7 hospitals$715$894 – $1,117: 8 hospitals$1,117 – $1,396: 9 hospitals$1,117$1,396 – $1,745: 14 hospitals$1,745 – $2,180: 24 hospitals$1,745$2,180 – $2,725: 50 hospitals$2,725 – $3,405: 26 hospitals$2,725$3,405 – $4,255: 44 hospitals$4,255 – $5,317: 14 hospitals$4,255$5,317 – $6,644: 42 hospitals$5,317median $2,800price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (238 of 256 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$715$8947
$894$1,1178
$1,117$1,3969
$1,396$1,74514
$1,745$2,18024
$2,180$2,72550
$2,725$3,40526
$3,405$4,25544
$4,255$5,31714
$5,317$6,64442

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,358
Median cash price$2,800
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.19×

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 $2,800.

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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,644 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,644Wisconsin: median $2,525 across 11 hospitalsWI$2,525Michigan: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $2,699 across 21 hospitalsNY$2,699Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,714 across 14 hospitalsIA$2,714Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $694 across 18 hospitalsPA$694New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $6,535 across 35 hospitalsCA$6,535Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $1,790 across 12 hospitalsOK$1,790Louisiana: 4 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,190 across 20 hospitalsTX$4,190Florida: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,800. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA35$6,535+133%$3,905 – $6,535
Texas TX20$4,190+50%$3,633 – $4,190
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+35%$2,524 – $5,419
Iowa IA14$2,714−3%$2,714 – $2,714
New York NY21$2,699−4%$2,497 – $2,739
Wisconsin WI11$2,525−10%$2,525 – $5,759
Oklahoma OK12$1,790−36%$1,790 – $1,790
Illinois IL10$1,644−41%$810 – $2,179
Pennsylvania PA18$694−75%$439 – $4,665
Michigan MI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY1not 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 $2,800.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care227$2,885$1,790 – $4,912
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access23$2,525$1,208 – $5,599
Ownership
For-profit23$3,329$810 – $4,752
Government30$2,699$1,889 – $3,633
Non-profit203$2,889$1,790 – $5,419
System affiliation
Part of a system220$2,889$1,790 – $5,419
Independent36$2,179$1,380 – $3,424

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,508
Median cash price$2,800
Cash as a share of list, median hospital60%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 40%. 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

169 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,889 and the average of the middle 60% is $3,132; most fall between $1,546 and $5,599.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 169 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
$904$1,790$2,889$4,190$6,535

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($904 vs $6,535).

Of the 177 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 169 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

256 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 272 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted256
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
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 — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code272

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 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 intraocular therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Rmvl FB Io From Post Seg Nonmagnetic Xtrj.

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 nonmagnetic foreign object from back of eye (CPT 65265) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65265-removal-of-a-nonmagnetic-foreign-object-from-back-of-eye