HRHospitalRates.comCompare prices

Procedure price report · Other intraocular therapeutic procedures

Use of an eye endoscope during surgery

CPT 66990the billing code this page is about

Add-on charge for using a viewing scope inside the eye during another eye operation; it is billed in addition to the main procedure.

Hospitals typically charge $471 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 196 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $554. Most fall between $144 and $2,283 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
196
States
34
Filings dated
Dec 2024 – 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 196 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
$98$152$471$1,399$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 64× what the cheapest tenth charges ($98 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$68 – $116: 16 hospitals$68$116 – $196: 42 hospitals$196 – $333: 28 hospitals$196$333 – $564: 19 hospitals$564 – $956: 25 hospitals$564$956 – $1,620: 13 hospitals$1,620 – $2,746: 9 hospitals$1,620$2,746 – $4,653: 9 hospitals$4,653 – $7,885: 9 hospitals$4,653$7,885 – $13,362: 8 hospitals$7,885median $471price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (178 of 196 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$68$11616
$116$19642
$196$33328
$333$56419
$564$95625
$956$1,62013
$1,620$2,7469
$2,746$4,6539
$4,653$7,8859
$7,885$13,3628

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $471.

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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNDMinnesota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMNIllinois: median $215 across 12 hospitalsIL$215Wisconsin: median $562 across 12 hospitalsWI$562Michigan: median $1,399 across 22 hospitalsMI$1,399New York: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMAOregon: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: median $226 across 13 hospitalsIA$226Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $59 across 14 hospitalsPA$59New Jersey: median $5,110 across 13 hospitalsNJ$5,110Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $750 across 24 hospitalsCA$750Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 3 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAZNew 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $144 across 10 hospitalsOK$144Louisiana: 1 hospital 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $471. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ13$5,110+985%$3,986 – $5,855
Michigan MI22$1,399+197%$100 – $1,399
California CA24$750+59%$750 – $750
Wisconsin WI12$562+19%$562 – $562
Iowa IA13$226−52%$226 – $226
Illinois IL12$215−54%$152 – $24,114
Oklahoma OK10$144−69%$144 – $144
Pennsylvania PA14$59−88%$54 – $199
North Carolina NC9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New York NY8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC1not 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 $471.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care167$471$144 – $2,580
Children’s5fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access24$562$152 – $1,399
Ownership
For-profit16fewer than 20 hospitals
Government19fewer than 20 hospitals
Non-profit161$562$144 – $2,015
System affiliation
Part of a system170$562$144 – $2,283
Independent26$192$150 – $2,195

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$525
Median cash price$471
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

128 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $263 and the average of the middle 60% is $412; most fall between $152 and $750.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 128 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
$131$152$263$750$1,622

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 12× what the cheapest tenth charges ($131 vs $1,622).

Of the 137 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 128 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 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

196 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 222 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted196
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) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded12
Hospitals that filed this code222

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 Other intraocular therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Use Ophthalmic Endoscope.

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, “Use of an eye endoscope during surgery (CPT 66990) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-66990-use-of-an-eye-endoscope-during-surgery