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Procedure price report · Glaucoma procedures

Laser treatment of the eye's drainage angle for glaucoma

CPT 65855the billing code this page is about

Laser is applied to the drainage meshwork of the eye to improve fluid outflow and lower eye pressure; billed per eye treated.

Hospitals typically charge $892 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 622 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $968. Most fall between $529 and $1,639 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
622
States
49
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 622 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
$335$585$892$1,544$2,754

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($335 vs $2,754).

How the prices are spread

$249 – $326: 27 hospitals$249$326 – $429: 34 hospitals$429 – $563: 53 hospitals$429$563 – $740: 113 hospitals$740 – $972: 76 hospitals$740$972 – $1,277: 80 hospitals$1,277 – $1,678: 96 hospitals$1,277$1,678 – $2,204: 32 hospitals$2,204 – $2,896: 22 hospitals$2,204$2,896 – $3,804: 29 hospitals$2,896median $892price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (562 of 622 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$249$32627
$326$42934
$429$56353
$563$740113
$740$97276
$972$1,27780
$1,277$1,67896
$1,678$2,20432
$2,204$2,89622
$2,896$3,80429

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$562
Median cash price$892
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.59×

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 $892.

Alaska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,011 across 14 hospitalsWA$1,011Idaho: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $1,866 across 27 hospitalsMN$1,866Illinois: median $670 across 24 hospitalsIL$670Wisconsin: median $1,118 across 38 hospitalsWI$1,118Michigan: median $1,399 across 35 hospitalsMI$1,399New York: median $1,065 across 53 hospitalsNY$1,065Massachusetts: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 3 hospitals 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 $612 across 15 hospitalsIA$612Indiana: median $670 across 10 hospitalsIN$670Ohio: median $671 across 39 hospitalsOH$671Pennsylvania: median $597 across 30 hospitalsPA$597New Jersey: median $720 across 29 hospitalsNJ$720Connecticut: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $1,618 across 52 hospitalsCA$1,618Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $508 across 11 hospitalsMO$508Kentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $614 across 17 hospitalsWV$614Virginia: median $1,094 across 15 hospitalsVA$1,094Maryland: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 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 $335 across 12 hospitalsOK$335Louisiana: median $533 across 21 hospitalsLA$533Mississippi: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $773 across 12 hospitalsGA$773Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,387 across 37 hospitalsTX$1,387Florida: median $1,488 across 14 hospitalsFL$1,488
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $892. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Minnesota MN27$1,866+109%$783 – $3,192
California CA52$1,618+81%$567 – $2,738
Florida FL14$1,488+67%$551 – $1,488
Michigan MI35$1,399+57%$756 – $1,399
Texas TX37$1,387+56%$1,294 – $1,672
Wisconsin WI38$1,118+25%$747 – $1,198
Virginia VA15$1,094+23%$249 – $1,094
New York NY53$1,065+19%$649 – $4,595
Washington WA14$1,011+13%$493 – $1,181
Georgia GA12$773−13%$773 – $931
New Jersey NJ29$720−19%$600 – $5,339
Ohio OH39$671−25%$585 – $1,614
Illinois IL24$670−25%$443 – $1,246
Indiana IN10$670−25%$670 – $2,095
West Virginia WV17$614−31%$206 – $749
Iowa IA15$612−31%$612 – $612
Pennsylvania PA30$597−33%$117 – $1,568
Louisiana LA21$533−40%$450 – $887
Missouri MO11$508−43%$324 – $3,810
Oklahoma OK12$335−62%$335 – $335
Massachusetts MA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $892.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care520$895$526 – $1,672
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access94$773$532 – $1,535
Ownership
For-profit48$793$526 – $1,387
Government83$720$453 – $1,135
Non-profit491$941$546 – $1,738
System affiliation
Part of a system526$914$548 – $1,672
Independent96$718$439 – $1,537

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,708
Median cash price$892
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

427 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $981 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,014; most fall between $508 and $1,618.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 427 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
$335$585$981$1,568$2,167

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.5× what the cheapest tenth charges ($335 vs $2,167).

Of the 456 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 427 gave a usable cash price; 20 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 9 a list price only.

How complete is this

622 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (16%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 675 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted622
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here41
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 — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code675

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 Glaucoma procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Trabeculoplasty by Laser Surgery.

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.

Download this page’s figures: JSON · CSV. Aggregates only — the per-hospital prices are on the compare tool.

Cite: HospitalRates.com, “Laser treatment of the eye's drainage angle for glaucoma (CPT 65855) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65855-laser-treatment-of-the-eye-s-drainage-angle-for-glaucoma