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Procedure price report · Glaucoma procedures

Laser opening in the iris for glaucoma, per session

CPT 66761the billing code this page is about

Laser is used to make one or more openings in the iris to improve fluid drainage in the eye; the charge covers a single treatment session, and more than one session may be needed.

Hospitals typically charge $898 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 717 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,036. Most fall between $514 and $1,983 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
717
States
49
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 717 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
$361$557$898$1,789$2,930

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($361 vs $2,930).

How the prices are spread

$252 – $334: 31 hospitals$252$334 – $443: 49 hospitals$443 – $588: 98 hospitals$443$588 – $780: 104 hospitals$780 – $1,036: 80 hospitals$780$1,036 – $1,374: 60 hospitals$1,374 – $1,824: 94 hospitals$1,374$1,824 – $2,421: 79 hospitals$2,421 – $3,213: 30 hospitals$2,421$3,213 – $4,264: 27 hospitals$3,213median $898price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (652 of 717 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$252$33431
$334$44349
$443$58898
$588$780104
$780$1,03680
$1,036$1,37460
$1,374$1,82494
$1,824$2,42179
$2,421$3,21330
$3,213$4,26427

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$562
Median cash price$898
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.60×

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 $898.

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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 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 29 hospitalsMN$1,866Illinois: median $853 across 29 hospitalsIL$853Wisconsin: median $1,045 across 38 hospitalsWI$1,045Michigan: median $756 across 22 hospitalsMI$756New York: median $1,458 across 58 hospitalsNY$1,458Massachusetts: median $1,538 across 10 hospitalsMA$1,538Oregon: median $583 across 14 hospitalsOR$583Nevada: 2 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 $740 across 20 hospitalsIA$740Indiana: median $557 across 12 hospitalsIN$557Ohio: median $1,292 across 39 hospitalsOH$1,292Pennsylvania: median $753 across 37 hospitalsPA$753New Jersey: median $712 across 32 hospitalsNJ$712Connecticut: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $2,158 across 64 hospitalsCA$2,158Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: median $453 across 12 hospitalsMO$453Kentucky: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $649 across 19 hospitalsWV$649Virginia: median $937 across 22 hospitalsVA$937Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: median $252 across 16 hospitalsTN$252North Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $383 across 12 hospitalsOK$383Louisiana: median $533 across 20 hospitalsLA$533Mississippi: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $525 across 32 hospitalsGA$525Hawaii: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,722 across 40 hospitalsTX$1,722Florida: median $1,456 across 24 hospitalsFL$1,456
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $898. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA64$2,158+140%$1,082 – $2,309
Minnesota MN29$1,866+108%$783 – $2,930
Texas TX40$1,722+92%$1,074 – $1,811
Massachusetts MA10$1,538+71%$905 – $2,184
New York NY58$1,458+62%$649 – $4,595
Florida FL24$1,456+62%$438 – $2,051
Ohio OH39$1,292+44%$585 – $2,393
Wisconsin WI38$1,045+16%$809 – $1,381
Virginia VA22$937+4%$252 – $1,078
Illinois IL29$853−5%$555 – $2,841
Michigan MI22$756−16%$421 – $1,910
Pennsylvania PA37$753−16%$94 – $1,388
Iowa IA20$740−18%$622 – $1,380
New Jersey NJ32$712−21%$607 – $5,110
West Virginia WV19$649−28%$234 – $788
Oregon OR14$583−35%$536 – $1,304
Indiana IN12$557−38%$557 – $1,652
Louisiana LA20$533−41%$374 – $714
Georgia GA32$525−42%$459 – $3,920
Missouri MO12$453−50%$364 – $1,576
Oklahoma OK12$383−57%$383 – $383
Tennessee TN16$252−72%$252 – $659
Kentucky KY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC6not 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
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not 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
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 $898.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care605$937$525 – $2,093
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access106$809$504 – $1,535
Ownership
For-profit60$796$469 – $1,730
Government106$748$453 – $1,488
Non-profit551$964$525 – $2,207
System affiliation
Part of a system609$937$516 – $2,093
Independent108$782$475 – $1,587

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,623
Median cash price$898
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

496 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,034 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,084; most fall between $471 and $1,866.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 496 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$552$1,034$1,757$2,393

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($354 vs $2,393).

Of the 532 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 496 gave a usable cash price; 23 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 13 a list price only.

How complete is this

717 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (18%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 776 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted717
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here45
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded14
Hospitals that filed this code776

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 Iridotomy/Irridectomy Laser Surg per Session.

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 opening in the iris for glaucoma, per session (CPT 66761) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-66761-laser-opening-in-the-iris-for-glaucoma-per-session