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Procedure price report · Lens and cataract procedures

Cataract removal in one piece with lens implant

CPT 66983the billing code this page is about

Older style cataract surgery in which the lens and its capsule are removed together and an artificial lens is placed during the same operation on one eye.

Hospitals typically charge $2,888 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 277 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,068. Most fall between $1,382 and $5,171 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
277
States
42
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 277 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
$932$1,638$2,888$4,595$8,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($932 vs $8,210).

How the prices are spread

$862 – $1,099: 20 hospitals$862$1,099 – $1,400: 23 hospitals$1,400 – $1,783: 18 hospitals$1,400$1,783 – $2,272: 23 hospitals$2,272 – $2,894: 44 hospitals$2,272$2,894 – $3,687: 14 hospitals$3,687 – $4,697: 62 hospitals$3,687$4,697 – $5,983: 15 hospitals$5,983 – $7,623: 9 hospitals$5,983$7,623 – $9,711: 23 hospitals$7,623median $2,888price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (251 of 277 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$862$1,09920
$1,099$1,40023
$1,400$1,78318
$1,783$2,27223
$2,272$2,89444
$2,894$3,68714
$3,687$4,69762
$4,697$5,98315
$5,983$7,6239
$7,623$9,71123

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,358
Median cash price$2,888
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.22×

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 $2,888.

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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: median $1,637 across 13 hospitalsIL$1,637Wisconsin: median $3,952 across 13 hospitalsWI$3,952Michigan: median $3,173 across 10 hospitalsMI$3,173New York: median $2,881 across 31 hospitalsNY$2,881Massachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $2,034 across 15 hospitalsIA$2,034Indiana: 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 $1,128 across 13 hospitalsPA$1,128New 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 $8,210 across 24 hospitalsCA$8,210Utah: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceUTColorado: 1 hospital 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 2 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: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 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: 2 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 $932 across 13 hospitalsOK$932Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMSAlabama: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $4,538 across 20 hospitalsTX$4,538Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,888. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA24$8,210+184%$8,210 – $8,210
Texas TX20$4,538+57%$2,292 – $4,538
Wisconsin WI13$3,952+37%$3,952 – $3,952
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+31%$2,524 – $5,419
Michigan MI10$3,173+10%$1,300 – $3,952
New York NY31$2,8810%$2,699 – $4,595
Iowa IA15$2,034−30%$2,034 – $2,034
Illinois IL13$1,637−43%$1,382 – $3,438
Pennsylvania PA13$1,128−61%$919 – $2,674
Oklahoma OK13$932−68%$932 – $1,679
Georgia GA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT1not 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 $2,888.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care234$2,881$1,382 – $5,339
Children’s7fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access36$3,952$1,679 – $4,590
Ownership
For-profit29$3,329$1,382 – $5,599
Government40$2,254$1,424 – $3,867
Non-profit208$3,173$1,479 – $5,599
System affiliation
Part of a system237$3,173$1,554 – $5,171
Independent40$2,100$1,198 – $4,599

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,356
Median cash price$2,888
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

169 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,524 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,937; most fall between $1,194 and $5,599.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 169 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
$932$1,382$2,524$4,538$8,210

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.8× what the cheapest tenth charges ($932 vs $8,210).

Of the 179 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 169 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 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

277 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 295 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted277
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) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded1
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code295

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 23, 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 Lens and cataract procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Icapsular Cataract Xtrj Insj Io Lens Prsth 1 Stg.

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, “Cataract removal in one piece with lens implant (CPT 66983) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-66983-cataract-removal-in-one-piece-with-lens-implant