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Eye chamber tap with removal of vitreous gel

CPT 65810the billing code this page is about

A puncture of the front chamber of the eye to release fluid, combined with removal of vitreous gel or opening of the membrane behind the lens.

Hospitals typically charge $2,757 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 391 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,739. Most fall between $1,151 and $4,650 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
391
States
44
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 391 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
$753$1,455$2,757$3,905$6,136

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($753 vs $6,136).

How the prices are spread

$525 – $682: 16 hospitals$525$682 – $886: 30 hospitals$886 – $1,151: 18 hospitals$886$1,151 – $1,495: 26 hospitals$1,495 – $1,942: 24 hospitals$1,495$1,942 – $2,523: 24 hospitals$2,523 – $3,277: 110 hospitals$2,523$3,277 – $4,258: 39 hospitals$4,258 – $5,531: 43 hospitals$4,258$5,531 – $7,185: 34 hospitals$5,531median $2,757price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (364 of 391 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$525$68216
$682$88630
$886$1,15118
$1,151$1,49526
$1,495$1,94224
$1,942$2,52324
$2,523$3,277110
$3,277$4,25839
$4,258$5,53143
$5,531$7,18534

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,358
Median cash price$2,757
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.17×

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 $2,757.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $3,178 across 13 hospitalsMN$3,178Illinois: median $1,091 across 18 hospitalsIL$1,091Wisconsin: median $3,359 across 17 hospitalsWI$3,359Michigan: median $3,173 across 19 hospitalsMI$3,173New York: median $2,699 across 27 hospitalsNY$2,699Massachusetts: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $1,151 across 15 hospitalsIA$1,151Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $2,607 across 20 hospitalsOH$2,607Pennsylvania: median $3,542 across 18 hospitalsPA$3,542New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,900 across 43 hospitalsCA$4,900Utah: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $3,170 across 14 hospitalsVA$3,170Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 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: 6 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 $753 across 18 hospitalsOK$753Louisiana: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,786 across 25 hospitalsTX$2,786Florida: median $3,005 across 14 hospitalsFL$3,005
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,757. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA43$4,900+78%$3,905 – $7,185
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+37%$2,524 – $5,419
Pennsylvania PA18$3,542+28%$2,653 – $5,303
Wisconsin WI17$3,359+22%$3,341 – $4,885
Minnesota MN13$3,178+15%$2,419 – $3,178
Michigan MI19$3,173+15%$1,213 – $7,831
Virginia VA14$3,170+15%$2,757 – $3,170
Florida FL14$3,005+9%$2,864 – $3,005
Texas TX25$2,786+1%$1,421 – $3,249
New York NY27$2,699−2%$1,521 – $3,549
Ohio OH20$2,607−5%$1,513 – $2,702
Iowa IA15$1,151−58%$1,151 – $1,151
Illinois IL18$1,091−60%$525 – $4,270
Oklahoma OK18$753−73%$753 – $1,834
Louisiana LA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not 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
Mississippi MS1not 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
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 $2,757.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care339$2,786$1,151 – $4,881
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access44$2,708$756 – $4,885
Ownership
For-profit31$2,702$525 – $3,927
Government53$2,315$915 – $2,969
Non-profit307$2,885$1,151 – $4,885
System affiliation
Part of a system340$2,786$1,151 – $4,885
Independent51$1,770$924 – $3,329

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,435
Median cash price$2,757
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

271 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,757 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,617; most fall between $924 and $4,298.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 271 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
$704$1,151$2,757$3,905$7,185

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 10× what the cheapest tenth charges ($704 vs $7,185).

Of the 288 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 271 gave a usable cash price; 15 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

391 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 428 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted391
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here31
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded4
Hospitals that filed this code428

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 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 Paracentsis Ant Cham Rmvl Vitreous W/WO Air Injx.

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, “Eye chamber tap with removal of vitreous gel (CPT 65810) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65810-eye-chamber-tap-with-removal-of-vitreous-gel