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Procedure price report · Other therapeutic procedures on eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea

Removal of a foreign object stuck in the eyelid

CPT 67938the billing code this page is about

Procedure to take out a foreign body that is embedded in the tissue of the eyelid.

Hospitals typically charge $388 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 1,670 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $424. Most fall between $225 and $730 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
1,670
States
49
Filings dated
Aug 2022 – 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 1,670 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
$160$254$388$658$1,018

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.4× what the cheapest tenth charges ($160 vs $1,018).

How the prices are spread

$109 – $140: 52 hospitals$109$140 – $181: 68 hospitals$181 – $233: 153 hospitals$181$233 – $300: 188 hospitals$300 – $387: 284 hospitals$300$387 – $498: 222 hospitals$498 – $642: 183 hospitals$498$642 – $828: 195 hospitals$828 – $1,066: 98 hospitals$828$1,066 – $1,374: 66 hospitals$1,066median $388price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (1,509 of 1,670 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$109$14052
$140$18168
$181$233153
$233$300188
$300$387284
$387$498222
$498$642183
$642$828195
$828$1,06698
$1,066$1,37466

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$324
Median cash price$388
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.20×

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 $388.

Alaska: median $642 across 10 hospitalsAK$642Maine: median $362 across 14 hospitalsME$362Vermont: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVTNew Hampshire: median $271 across 15 hospitalsNH$271Washington: median $429 across 49 hospitalsWA$429Idaho: median $773 across 13 hospitalsID$773Montana: median $366 across 19 hospitalsMT$366North Dakota: median $358 across 12 hospitalsND$358Minnesota: median $308 across 54 hospitalsMN$308Illinois: median $417 across 69 hospitalsIL$417Wisconsin: median $486 across 80 hospitalsWI$486Michigan: median $436 across 51 hospitalsMI$436New York: median $367 across 69 hospitalsNY$367Massachusetts: median $516 across 35 hospitalsMA$516Oregon: median $361 across 32 hospitalsOR$361Nevada: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: median $222 across 10 hospitalsWY$222South Dakota: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $327 across 46 hospitalsIA$327Indiana: median $248 across 39 hospitalsIN$248Ohio: median $350 across 55 hospitalsOH$350Pennsylvania: median $393 across 83 hospitalsPA$393New Jersey: median $761 across 48 hospitalsNJ$761Connecticut: median $426 across 12 hospitalsCT$426Rhode Island: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $827 across 103 hospitalsCA$827Utah: median $413 across 28 hospitalsUT$413Colorado: median $375 across 34 hospitalsCO$375Nebraska: median $384 across 42 hospitalsNE$384Missouri: median $285 across 31 hospitalsMO$285Kentucky: median $274 across 24 hospitalsKY$274West Virginia: median $331 across 24 hospitalsWV$331Virginia: median $446 across 43 hospitalsVA$446Maryland: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMDDelaware: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: median $1,018 across 15 hospitalsAZ$1,018New Mexico: median $246 across 17 hospitalsNM$246Kansas: median $268 across 44 hospitalsKS$268Arkansas: median $278 across 12 hospitalsAR$278Tennessee: median $260 across 16 hospitalsTN$260North Carolina: median $202 across 30 hospitalsNC$202South Carolina: median $256 across 34 hospitalsSC$256Oklahoma: median $218 across 40 hospitalsOK$218Louisiana: median $192 across 32 hospitalsLA$192Mississippi: median $240 across 31 hospitalsMS$240Alabama: median $307 across 14 hospitalsAL$307Georgia: median $678 across 43 hospitalsGA$678Hawaii: median $714 across 13 hospitalsHI$714Texas: median $501 across 108 hospitalsTX$501Florida: median $772 across 43 hospitalsFL$772
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $388. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Arizona AZ15$1,018+162%$390 – $1,018
California CA103$827+113%$367 – $1,182
Idaho ID13$773+99%$292 – $828
Florida FL43$772+99%$388 – $1,052
New Jersey NJ48$761+96%$352 – $4,350
Hawaii HI13$714+84%$494 – $1,128
Georgia GA43$678+75%$207 – $730
Alaska AK10$642+65%$380 – $819
Massachusetts MA35$516+33%$302 – $787
Texas TX108$501+29%$354 – $950
Wisconsin WI80$486+25%$195 – $705
Virginia VA43$446+15%$221 – $766
Michigan MI51$436+12%$235 – $705
Washington WA49$429+11%$206 – $682
Connecticut CT12$426+10%$199 – $743
Illinois IL69$417+7%$248 – $646
Utah UT28$413+6%$363 – $442
Pennsylvania PA83$393+1%$271 – $718
Nebraska NE42$384−1%$233 – $553
Colorado CO34$375−3%$288 – $689
New York NY69$367−5%$216 – $792
Montana MT19$366−6%$215 – $465
Maine ME14$362−7%$213 – $540
Oregon OR32$361−7%$302 – $737
North Dakota ND12$358−8%$284 – $680
Ohio OH55$350−10%$282 – $894
West Virginia WV24$331−15%$286 – $510
Iowa IA46$327−16%$223 – $522
Minnesota MN54$308−21%$240 – $558
Alabama AL14$307−21%$206 – $615
Missouri MO31$285−27%$241 – $491
Arkansas AR12$278−29%$83 – $496
Kentucky KY24$274−29%$196 – $599
New Hampshire NH15$271−30%$87 – $344
Kansas KS44$268−31%$163 – $416
Tennessee TN16$260−33%$105 – $483
South Carolina SC34$256−34%$256 – $510
Indiana IN39$248−36%$94 – $421
New Mexico NM17$246−37%$185 – $531
Mississippi MS31$240−38%$133 – $375
Wyoming WY10$222−43%$127 – $350
Oklahoma OK40$218−44%$191 – $634
North Carolina NC30$202−48%$201 – $400
Louisiana LA32$192−51%$113 – $512
Nevada NV9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE3not 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 $388.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care1,200$394$228 – $776
Children’s27$591$334 – $1,488
Critical access440$360$215 – $605
Ownership
For-profit150$411$225 – $950
Government316$354$201 – $588
Non-profit1,201$397$240 – $742
System affiliation
Part of a system1,342$400$239 – $738
Independent328$350$202 – $670

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$650
Median cash price$388
Cash as a share of list, median hospital62%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 38%. 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

1,252 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $410 and the average of the middle 60% is $447; most fall between $228 and $752.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 1,252 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
$166$256$410$701$1,018

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 6.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($166 vs $1,018).

Of the 1,340 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 1,252 gave a usable cash price; 32 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 56 a list price only.

How complete is this

1,670 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (42%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 1,790 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted1,670
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here56
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded0
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded64
Hospitals that filed this code1,790

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 therapeutic procedures on eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Removal Embedded Foreign Body Eyelid.

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, “Removal of a foreign object stuck in the eyelid (CPT 67938) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-67938-removal-of-a-foreign-object-stuck-in-the-eyelid