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

Sealing an eye wound with tissue glue

CPT 65286the billing code this page is about

Repair of a wound of the clear front surface or white of the eye by applying tissue adhesive instead of stitches.

Hospitals typically charge $2,349 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 413 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,371. Most fall between $990 and $4,314 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
413
States
46
Filings dated
Jun 2024 – 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 413 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
$671$1,238$2,349$3,542$5,443

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($671 vs $5,443).

How the prices are spread

$456 – $598: 9 hospitals$456$598 – $784: 34 hospitals$784 – $1,027: 25 hospitals$784$1,027 – $1,346: 32 hospitals$1,346 – $1,764: 36 hospitals$1,346$1,764 – $2,312: 48 hospitals$2,312 – $3,030: 80 hospitals$2,312$3,030 – $3,970: 41 hospitals$3,970 – $5,203: 43 hospitals$3,970$5,203 – $6,819: 25 hospitals$5,203median $2,349price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (373 of 413 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$456$5989
$598$78434
$784$1,02725
$1,027$1,34632
$1,346$1,76436
$1,764$2,31248
$2,312$3,03080
$3,030$3,97041
$3,970$5,20343
$5,203$6,81925

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,358
Median cash price$2,349
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.00×

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 $2,349.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,498 across 10 hospitalsMN$2,498Illinois: median $1,637 across 19 hospitalsIL$1,637Wisconsin: median $4,516 across 15 hospitalsWI$4,516Michigan: median $4,516 across 17 hospitalsMI$4,516New York: median $2,699 across 28 hospitalsNY$2,699Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,736 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,736Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $1,805 across 10 hospitalsOH$1,805Pennsylvania: median $3,329 across 27 hospitalsPA$3,329New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,470 across 46 hospitalsCA$2,470Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $804 across 12 hospitalsOK$804Louisiana: median $911 across 10 hospitalsLA$911Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $2,943 across 18 hospitalsGA$2,943Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,265 across 40 hospitalsTX$2,265Florida: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,349. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Michigan MI17$4,516+92%$3,173 – $7,609
Wisconsin WI15$4,516+92%$1,768 – $4,516
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+61%$2,524 – $5,419
Pennsylvania PA27$3,329+42%$138 – $4,912
Georgia GA18$2,943+25%$2,943 – $3,920
New York NY28$2,699+15%$2,699 – $5,361
Minnesota MN10$2,498+6%$1,019 – $2,498
California CA46$2,470+5%$1,862 – $2,470
Texas TX40$2,265−4%$2,017 – $4,314
Ohio OH10$1,805−23%$825 – $4,738
Iowa IA14$1,736−26%$1,736 – $1,736
Illinois IL19$1,637−30%$671 – $4,401
Louisiana LA10$911−61%$624 – $1,693
Oklahoma OK12$804−66%$804 – $804
Florida FL9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,349.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care366$2,470$1,054 – $3,986
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access40$2,088$707 – $4,516
Ownership
For-profit30$994$671 – $3,329
Government59$2,265$1,151 – $3,395
Non-profit324$2,470$1,094 – $4,350
System affiliation
Part of a system358$2,470$930 – $4,314
Independent55$1,805$990 – $4,490

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,580
Median cash price$2,349
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

301 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,104 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,341; most fall between $857 and $4,314.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 301 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
$671$1,247$2,104$3,599$5,443

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($671 vs $5,443).

Of the 318 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 301 gave a usable cash price; 10 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

413 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 437 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted413
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here17
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 — excluded6
Hospitals that filed this code437

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 Rpr Lac Appl Tissue Glue Wound Cornea&/Sclera.

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, “Sealing an eye wound with tissue glue (CPT 65286) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65286-sealing-an-eye-wound-with-tissue-glue