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

Placement of an amniotic membrane on the eye, no stitches

CPT 65778the billing code this page is about

Placement of a self-retaining amniotic membrane on the surface of the eye to protect and support healing, held in place without sutures or glue.

Hospitals typically charge $1,793 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 425 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,040. Most fall between $727 and $3,665 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
425
States
45
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 425 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
$329$993$1,793$3,400$5,243

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 16× what the cheapest tenth charges ($329 vs $5,243).

How the prices are spread

$88 – $139: 7 hospitals$88$139 – $219: 10 hospitals$219 – $345: 8 hospitals$219$345 – $545: 25 hospitals$545 – $861: 25 hospitals$545$861 – $1,359: 85 hospitals$1,359 – $2,146: 52 hospitals$1,359$2,146 – $3,389: 82 hospitals$3,389 – $5,351: 71 hospitals$3,389$5,351 – $8,448: 32 hospitals$5,351median $1,793price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (397 of 425 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$88$1397
$139$21910
$219$3458
$345$54525
$545$86125
$861$1,35985
$1,359$2,14652
$2,146$3,38982
$3,389$5,35171
$5,351$8,44832

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$1,018
Median cash price$1,793
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.76×

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 $1,793.

Alaska: 3 hospitals 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 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 $1,868 across 20 hospitalsMN$1,868Illinois: median $2,242 across 25 hospitalsIL$2,242Wisconsin: median $6,347 across 35 hospitalsWI$6,347Michigan: median $3,665 across 17 hospitalsMI$3,665New York: median $1,183 across 30 hospitalsNY$1,183Massachusetts: 6 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 $3,400 across 15 hospitalsIA$3,400Indiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,825 across 25 hospitalsPA$1,825New 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 $2,686 across 43 hospitalsCA$2,686Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,339 across 11 hospitalsVA$1,339Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $78 across 12 hospitalsOK$78Louisiana: median $855 across 17 hospitalsLA$855Mississippi: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: median $613 across 18 hospitalsGA$613Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,550 across 24 hospitalsTX$2,550Florida: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,793. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Wisconsin WI35$6,347+254%$3,895 – $8,448
New Jersey NJ23$3,786+111%$1,072 – $5,419
Michigan MI17$3,665+104%$1,371 – $3,665
Iowa IA15$3,400+90%$2,966 – $3,400
California CA43$2,686+50%$458 – $3,237
Texas TX24$2,550+42%$1,568 – $2,828
Illinois IL25$2,242+25%$925 – $3,536
Minnesota MN20$1,868+4%$1,331 – $2,570
Pennsylvania PA25$1,825+2%$1,149 – $4,771
Virginia VA11$1,339−25%$410 – $1,339
New York NY30$1,183−34%$1,146 – $3,030
Louisiana LA17$855−52%$607 – $1,413
Georgia GA18$613−66%$613 – $4,684
Oklahoma OK12$78−96%$78 – $78
West Virginia WV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN1not 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
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 $1,793.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care370$1,504$613 – $3,536
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access47$2,828$2,190 – $8,448
Ownership
For-profit30$1,438$613 – $2,876
Government57$1,259$820 – $2,860
Non-profit338$1,975$764 – $3,889
System affiliation
Part of a system366$1,878$678 – $3,665
Independent59$1,438$800 – $2,876

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,836
Median cash price$1,793
Cash as a share of list, median hospital61%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 39%. 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

261 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,242 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,238; most fall between $727 and $3,665.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 261 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
$458$993$2,242$3,400$4,684

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($458 vs $4,684).

Of the 309 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 261 gave a usable cash price; 40 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

425 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (11%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 474 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted425
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 code474

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 Place Amniotic Membra Ocular Surface W/O Sutures.

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, “Placement of an amniotic membrane on the eye, no stitches (CPT 65778) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65778-placement-of-an-amniotic-membrane-on-the-eye-no-stitches