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Procedure price report · Other intraocular therapeutic procedures

Laser cutting of strands or cloudiness in the eye gel

CPT 67031the billing code this page is about

Laser treatment to divide strands, membranes, or opacities in the jelly-like interior of the eye; the code covers the treatment even if done over more than one session.

Hospitals typically charge $916 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 398 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,043. Most fall between $562 and $2,284 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
398
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 398 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
$383$585$916$1,736$2,951

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 7.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($383 vs $2,951).

How the prices are spread

$290 – $371: 18 hospitals$290$371 – $476: 22 hospitals$476 – $609: 60 hospitals$476$609 – $781: 60 hospitals$781 – $1,000: 38 hospitals$781$1,000 – $1,281: 18 hospitals$1,281 – $1,642: 60 hospitals$1,281$1,642 – $2,103: 20 hospitals$2,103 – $2,694: 31 hospitals$2,103$2,694 – $3,451: 33 hospitals$2,694median $916price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (360 of 398 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$290$37118
$371$47622
$476$60960
$609$78160
$781$1,00038
$1,000$1,28118
$1,281$1,64260
$1,642$2,10320
$2,103$2,69431
$2,694$3,45133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$562
Median cash price$916
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.63×

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 $916.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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 $1,873 across 18 hospitalsMN$1,873Illinois: median $665 across 23 hospitalsIL$665Wisconsin: median $2,465 across 26 hospitalsWI$2,465Michigan: median $1,910 across 19 hospitalsMI$1,910New York: median $649 across 30 hospitalsNY$649Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 6 hospitals 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 $968 across 15 hospitalsIA$968Indiana: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $632 across 18 hospitalsOH$632Pennsylvania: median $262 across 17 hospitalsPA$262New Jersey: median $3,786 across 22 hospitalsNJ$3,786Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,718 across 41 hospitalsCA$2,718Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: median $352 across 11 hospitalsWV$352Virginia: median $1,392 across 14 hospitalsVA$1,392Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 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: 4 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 $573 across 12 hospitalsOK$573Louisiana: 8 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: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,297 across 21 hospitalsTX$1,297Florida: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $916. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
New Jersey NJ22$3,786+313%$607 – $5,419
California CA41$2,718+197%$1,513 – $2,951
Wisconsin WI26$2,465+169%$1,265 – $2,936
Michigan MI19$1,910+108%$593 – $1,910
Minnesota MN18$1,873+104%$783 – $2,548
Virginia VA14$1,392+52%$363 – $1,406
Texas TX21$1,297+42%$985 – $1,297
Iowa IA15$968+6%$968 – $1,371
Illinois IL23$665−27%$443 – $2,142
New York NY30$649−29%$649 – $1,458
Ohio OH18$632−31%$585 – $2,631
Oklahoma OK12$573−38%$573 – $573
West Virginia WV11$352−62%$334 – $703
Pennsylvania PA17$262−71%$214 – $1,736
Louisiana LA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $916.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care338$826$562 – $1,940
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access56$1,276$571 – $2,465
Ownership
For-profit26$929$653 – $1,377
Government55$649$518 – $1,150
Non-profit317$968$571 – $2,465
System affiliation
Part of a system335$968$571 – $2,465
Independent63$709$518 – $1,298

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,598
Median cash price$916
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

278 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,034 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,119; most fall between $573 and $2,367.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 278 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
$429$585$1,034$1,736$2,886

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($429 vs $2,886).

Of the 297 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 278 gave a usable cash price; 12 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 7 a list price only.

How complete is this

398 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (10%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 428 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted398
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here21
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 — excluded8
Hospitals that filed this code428

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 Vitreous Strans Laser 1/> Stages.

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 cutting of strands or cloudiness in the eye gel (CPT 67031) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-67031-laser-cutting-of-strands-or-cloudiness-in-the-eye-gel