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Procedure price report · Destruction of lesion of retina and choroid

Freezing or heat treatment for advanced retinopathy

CPT 67227the billing code this page is about

Treatment of extensive or worsening disease of the retina using freezing or electrical heat, covering all sessions needed to complete the defined course of treatment.

Hospitals typically charge $3,521 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 269 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $3,080. Most fall between $910 and $4,881 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
269
States
41
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 269 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
$413$1,079$3,521$4,878$5,672

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 14× what the cheapest tenth charges ($413 vs $5,672).

How the prices are spread

$221 – $316: 5 hospitals$221$316 – $454: 16 hospitals$454 – $651: 15 hospitals$454$651 – $933: 9 hospitals$933 – $1,338: 30 hospitals$933$1,338 – $1,919: 23 hospitals$1,919 – $2,753: 10 hospitals$1,919$2,753 – $3,948: 29 hospitals$3,948 – $5,662: 94 hospitals$3,948$5,662 – $8,121: 14 hospitals$5,662median $3,521price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (245 of 269 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$221$3165
$316$45416
$454$65115
$651$9339
$933$1,33830
$1,338$1,91923
$1,919$2,75310
$2,753$3,94829
$3,948$5,66294
$5,662$8,12114

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$4,017
Median cash price$3,521
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.88×

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 $3,521.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 6 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 $1,079 across 14 hospitalsIL$1,079Wisconsin: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: median $1,399 across 18 hospitalsMI$1,399New York: median $4,462 across 22 hospitalsNY$4,462Massachusetts: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 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 $1,079 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,079Indiana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceINOhio: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,658 across 16 hospitalsPA$2,658New Jersey: median $4,441 across 23 hospitalsNJ$4,441Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,878 across 39 hospitalsCA$4,878Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 5 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: 1 hospital 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: 1 hospital 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 $413 across 12 hospitalsOK$413Louisiana: 7 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 $3,041 across 20 hospitalsTX$3,041Florida: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $3,521. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA39$4,878+39%$4,878 – $5,101
New York NY22$4,462+27%$4,462 – $4,908
New Jersey NJ23$4,441+26%$4,174 – $5,419
Texas TX20$3,041−14%$3,041 – $3,521
Pennsylvania PA16$2,658−25%$161 – $6,376
Michigan MI18$1,399−60%$1,399 – $5,406
Iowa IA14$1,079−69%$1,079 – $1,147
Illinois IL14$1,079−69%$217 – $11,313
Oklahoma OK12$413−88%$413 – $413
Ohio OH8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ1not 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
Kentucky KY1not 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
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 $3,521.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care240$3,574$910 – $4,881
Children’s8fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access21$3,521$989 – $9,850
Ownership
For-profit23$1,416$322 – $4,843
Government30$1,783$489 – $4,462
Non-profit216$3,574$1,079 – $5,087
System affiliation
Part of a system232$3,599$920 – $4,878
Independent37$1,572$665 – $4,947

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$3,190
Median cash price$3,521
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

167 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,430 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,587; most fall between $489 and $4,878.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 167 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
$322$533$2,430$4,878$5,979

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 19× what the cheapest tenth charges ($322 vs $5,979).

Of the 180 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 167 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 1 a list price only.

How complete is this

269 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 — counted269
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 — 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 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 Destruction of lesion of retina and choroid family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Destruction Retinopathy Cryotherapy Diathermy.

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, “Freezing or heat treatment for advanced retinopathy (CPT 67227) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-67227-freezing-or-heat-treatment-for-advanced-retinopathy