HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Lens and cataract procedures

Complex cataract surgery with lens and eye pressure stent

CPT 66989the billing code this page is about

Difficult cataract removal with artificial lens insertion in one eye, plus placement of one or more drainage devices to lower eye pressure.

Hospitals typically charge $5,675 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 296 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $5,746. Most fall between $2,407 and $9,052 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
296
States
43
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 296 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
$1,293$2,874$5,675$8,653$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.2× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,293 vs $11,934).

How the prices are spread

$739 – $985: 4 hospitals$739$985 – $1,313: 16 hospitals$1,313 – $1,750: 19 hospitals$1,313$1,750 – $2,332: 6 hospitals$2,332 – $3,107: 18 hospitals$2,332$3,107 – $4,140: 20 hospitals$4,140 – $5,517: 38 hospitals$4,140$5,517 – $7,353: 64 hospitals$7,353 – $9,798: 47 hospitals$7,353$9,798 – $13,057: 37 hospitals$9,798median $5,675price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (269 of 296 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$739$9854
$985$1,31316
$1,313$1,75019
$1,750$2,3326
$2,332$3,10718
$3,107$4,14020
$4,140$5,51738
$5,517$7,35364
$7,353$9,79847
$9,798$13,05737

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$5,437
Median cash price$5,675
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.04×

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 $5,675.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 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 $5,968 across 20 hospitalsMN$5,968Illinois: median $1,336 across 10 hospitalsIL$1,336Wisconsin: median $8,451 across 28 hospitalsWI$8,451Michigan: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $6,106 across 20 hospitalsNY$6,106Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $3,660 across 19 hospitalsPA$3,660New Jersey: median $5,711 across 22 hospitalsNJ$5,711Connecticut: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $11,934 across 36 hospitalsCA$11,934Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 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: 5 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 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: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $5,407 across 10 hospitalsTX$5,407Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $5,675. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA36$11,934+110%$8,653 – $11,934
Wisconsin WI28$8,451+49%$5,675 – $9,052
New York NY20$6,106+8%$6,106 – $6,643
Minnesota MN20$5,968+5%$2,540 – $7,438
New Jersey NJ22$5,711+1%$4,881 – $6,076
Texas TX10$5,407−5%$2,611 – $11,561
Pennsylvania PA19$3,660−36%$517 – $8,723
Illinois IL10$1,336−76%$1,293 – $10,499
Michigan MI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not 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
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 $5,675.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care243$5,716$2,471 – $10,499
Critical access53$5,229$1,699 – $8,451
Ownership
For-profit31$4,430$1,293 – $7,677
Government46$4,153$2,050 – $6,530
Non-profit219$5,716$2,533 – $9,052
System affiliation
Part of a system258$5,675$2,475 – $9,052
Independent38$4,133$1,522 – $9,443

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$8,730
Median cash price$5,675
Cash as a share of list, median hospital56%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 44%. 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

179 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $5,675 and the average of the middle 60% is $5,535; most fall between $1,541 and $11,111.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 179 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
$1,128$2,113$5,675$9,052$11,934

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 11× what the cheapest tenth charges ($1,128 vs $11,934).

Of the 186 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 179 gave a usable cash price; 6 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

296 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 311 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted296
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here12
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded1
Hospitals that filed this code311

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 Lens and cataract procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Xcapsl Ctrc Rmvl Insj Io Lens Prsth Cplx Insj 1+.

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, “Complex cataract surgery with lens and eye pressure stent (CPT 66989) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-66989-complex-cataract-surgery-with-lens-and-eye-pressure-stent