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Procedure price report · Destruction of lesion of retina and choroid

Laser treatment of the retina for advanced retinopathy

CPT 67228the billing code this page is about

Laser destruction of abnormal areas of the retina in widespread or progressive retinal disease; the charge covers one or more treatment sessions of the same eye.

Hospitals typically charge $1,183 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 586 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,230. Most fall between $612 and $2,309 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
586
States
49
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 586 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
$475$656$1,183$1,910$3,971

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($475 vs $3,971).

How the prices are spread

$277 – $374: 15 hospitals$277$374 – $506: 28 hospitals$506 – $685: 97 hospitals$506$685 – $926: 60 hospitals$926 – $1,252: 87 hospitals$926$1,252 – $1,693: 86 hospitals$1,693 – $2,290: 68 hospitals$1,693$2,290 – $3,097: 40 hospitals$3,097 – $4,188: 21 hospitals$3,097$4,188 – $5,663: 28 hospitals$4,188median $1,183price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (530 of 586 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$277$37415
$374$50628
$506$68597
$685$92660
$926$1,25287
$1,252$1,69386
$1,693$2,29068
$2,290$3,09740
$3,097$4,18821
$4,188$5,66328

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$562
Median cash price$1,183
Cash as a multiple of Medicare2.1×

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 $1,183.

Alaska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: median $1,475 across 16 hospitalsWA$1,475Idaho: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,028 across 25 hospitalsMN$2,028Illinois: median $888 across 25 hospitalsIL$888Wisconsin: median $1,572 across 43 hospitalsWI$1,572Michigan: median $1,399 across 28 hospitalsMI$1,399New York: median $854 across 41 hospitalsNY$854Massachusetts: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 9 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $1,766 across 16 hospitalsIA$1,766Indiana: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: median $674 across 35 hospitalsOH$674Pennsylvania: median $852 across 30 hospitalsPA$852New Jersey: median $646 across 28 hospitalsNJ$646Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $2,890 across 51 hospitalsCA$2,890Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $900 across 11 hospitalsVA$900Maryland: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $493 across 12 hospitalsOK$493Louisiana: median $535 across 18 hospitalsLA$535Mississippi: median $709 across 12 hospitalsMS$709Alabama: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $1,183 across 17 hospitalsGA$1,183Hawaii: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $1,575 across 39 hospitalsTX$1,575Florida: median $1,256 across 10 hospitalsFL$1,256
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,183. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA51$2,890+144%$1,513 – $2,890
Minnesota MN25$2,028+71%$1,218 – $3,122
Iowa IA16$1,766+49%$1,766 – $1,766
Texas TX39$1,575+33%$920 – $1,854
Wisconsin WI43$1,572+33%$933 – $4,900
Washington WA16$1,475+25%$842 – $2,687
Michigan MI28$1,399+18%$1,018 – $1,910
Florida FL10$1,256+6%$1,032 – $7,614
Georgia GA17$1,1830%$177 – $1,183
Virginia VA11$900−24%$227 – $900
Illinois IL25$888−25%$575 – $2,110
New York NY41$854−28%$649 – $1,890
Pennsylvania PA30$852−28%$192 – $1,240
Mississippi MS12$709−40%$665 – $1,357
Ohio OH35$674−43%$585 – $1,332
New Jersey NJ28$646−45%$600 – $5,339
Louisiana LA18$535−55%$374 – $971
Oklahoma OK12$493−58%$493 – $493
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV1not 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 $1,183.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care498$1,109$600 – $2,104
Children’s16fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access72$1,397$888 – $3,122
Ownership
For-profit45$1,010$674 – $1,587
Government77$910$548 – $2,158
Non-profit464$1,218$612 – $2,580
System affiliation
Part of a system501$1,186$629 – $2,335
Independent85$1,018$551 – $2,158

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$2,025
Median cash price$1,183
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

399 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $1,275 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,307; most fall between $616 and $2,035.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 399 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
$491$793$1,275$1,904$3,122

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($491 vs $3,122).

Of the 426 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 399 gave a usable cash price; 19 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 8 a list price only.

How complete is this

586 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (15%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 642 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted586
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here42
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded2
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code642

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 Treatment Extensive Retinopathy Photocoagulation.

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 treatment of the retina for advanced retinopathy (CPT 67228) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-67228-laser-treatment-of-the-retina-for-advanced-retinopathy