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Procedure price report · Diagnostic procedures on eye

Scraping of the cornea for laboratory testing

CPT 65430the billing code this page is about

Scraping of cells from the corneal surface so they can be cultured or examined in the laboratory.

Hospitals typically charge $402 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 500 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $396. Most fall between $182 and $604 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
500
States
48
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 500 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
$111$224$402$562$1,025

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($111 vs $1,025).

How the prices are spread

$95 – $127: 34 hospitals$95$127 – $171: 37 hospitals$171 – $230: 33 hospitals$171$230 – $310: 47 hospitals$310 – $417: 90 hospitals$310$417 – $560: 105 hospitals$560 – $754: 66 hospitals$560$754 – $1,015: 12 hospitals$1,015 – $1,365: 16 hospitals$1,015$1,365 – $1,836: 11 hospitals$1,365median $402price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (451 of 500 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$95$12734
$127$17137
$171$23033
$230$31047
$310$41790
$417$560105
$560$75466
$754$1,01512
$1,015$1,36516
$1,365$1,83611

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$456
Median cash price$402
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $402.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 3 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: 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: median $469 across 19 hospitalsMN$469Illinois: median $258 across 19 hospitalsIL$258Wisconsin: median $441 across 37 hospitalsWI$441Michigan: median $614 across 19 hospitalsMI$614New York: median $472 across 34 hospitalsNY$472Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $288 across 14 hospitalsIA$288Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $316 across 30 hospitalsOH$316Pennsylvania: median $143 across 28 hospitalsPA$143New Jersey: median $3,786 across 23 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 $562 across 49 hospitalsCA$562Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $102 across 12 hospitalsWV$102Virginia: median $460 across 18 hospitalsVA$460Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 3 hospitals 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: median $604 across 11 hospitalsNC$604South Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $165 across 12 hospitalsOK$165Louisiana: median $146 across 18 hospitalsLA$146Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $370 across 34 hospitalsTX$370Florida: median $339 across 11 hospitalsFL$339
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $402. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+842%$442 – $5,419
Michigan MI19$614+53%$407 – $1,369
North Carolina NC11$604+50%$405 – $604
California CA49$562+40%$449 – $728
New York NY34$472+17%$290 – $833
Minnesota MN19$469+17%$462 – $542
Virginia VA18$460+14%$187 – $497
Wisconsin WI37$441+10%$314 – $546
Texas TX34$370−8%$347 – $409
Florida FL11$339−16%$262 – $465
Ohio OH30$316−21%$314 – $382
Iowa IA14$288−28%$288 – $288
Illinois IL19$258−36%$190 – $595
Oklahoma OK12$165−59%$165 – $165
Louisiana LA18$146−64%$93 – $224
Pennsylvania PA28$143−64%$64 – $620
West Virginia WV12$102−75%$95 – $272
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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

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 $402.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care422$391$173 – $644
Children’s10fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access68$441$190 – $546
Ownership
For-profit29$262$190 – $656
Government68$375$226 – $552
Non-profit403$409$170 – $614
System affiliation
Part of a system427$408$190 – $604
Independent73$375$163 – $667

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$595
Median cash price$402
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

339 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $370 and the average of the middle 60% is $393; most fall between $193 and $659.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 339 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
$147$260$370$564$1,008

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($147 vs $1,008).

Of the 359 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 339 gave a usable cash price; 14 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 6 a list price only.

How complete is this

500 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (13%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 539 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted500
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here30
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code539

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 Diagnostic procedures on eye family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Cornea Scraping Diagnostic Smear &/Culture.

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, “Scraping of the cornea for laboratory testing (CPT 65430) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65430-scraping-of-the-cornea-for-laboratory-testing