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Procedure price report · Other intraocular therapeutic procedures

Laser release of scar tissue in the front of the eye

CPT 65860the billing code this page is about

Laser is used to cut adhesions inside the front portion of the eye, performed as a stand-alone procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $697 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 280 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $765. Most fall between $420 and $1,384 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
280
States
41
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 280 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
$354$455$697$1,203$2,951

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.3× what the cheapest tenth charges ($354 vs $2,951).

How the prices are spread

$176 – $237: 5 hospitals$176$237 – $319: 5 hospitals$319 – $429: 37 hospitals$319$429 – $577: 27 hospitals$577 – $777: 77 hospitals$577$777 – $1,045: 26 hospitals$1,045 – $1,407: 34 hospitals$1,045$1,407 – $1,893: 13 hospitals$1,893 – $2,548: 4 hospitals$1,893$2,548 – $3,429: 25 hospitals$2,548median $697price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (253 of 280 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$176$2375
$237$3195
$319$42937
$429$57727
$577$77777
$777$1,04526
$1,045$1,40734
$1,407$1,89313
$1,893$2,5484
$2,548$3,42925

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$562
Median cash price$697
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.24×

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 $697.

Alaska: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 3 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: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $483 across 15 hospitalsIL$483Wisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $649 across 23 hospitalsNY$649Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 5 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 $767 across 14 hospitalsIA$767Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $439 across 20 hospitalsPA$439New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,951 across 26 hospitalsCA$2,951Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $405 across 12 hospitalsOK$405Louisiana: median $508 across 14 hospitalsLA$508Mississippi: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,203 across 20 hospitalsTX$1,203Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $697. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+444%$607 – $5,419
California CA26$2,951+324%$2,951 – $2,951
Texas TX20$1,203+73%$971 – $1,203
Iowa IA14$767+10%$767 – $767
New York NY23$649−7%$649 – $703
Louisiana LA14$508−27%$374 – $591
Illinois IL15$483−31%$420 – $1,136
Pennsylvania PA20$439−37%$112 – $852
Oklahoma OK12$405−42%$405 – $405
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $697.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care249$703$420 – $1,535
Children’s3fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access28$594$420 – $1,203
Ownership
For-profit22$697$420 – $1,203
Government37$649$551 – $1,383
Non-profit221$714$420 – $1,535
System affiliation
Part of a system231$703$420 – $1,535
Independent49$675$439 – $1,105

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,221
Median cash price$697
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

172 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $767 and the average of the middle 60% is $794; most fall between $405 and $1,535.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 172 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
$302$420$767$1,203$2,951

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($302 vs $2,951).

Of the 185 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 172 gave a usable cash price; 7 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

280 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (7%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 301 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted280
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here14
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 code301

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 intraocular therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Severing Adhesions Anterior Segment Laser Spx.

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, “Laser release of scar tissue in the front of the eye (CPT 65860) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-65860-laser-release-of-scar-tissue-in-the-front-of-the-eye