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

Surgical repair of the tear drainage channels

CPT 68700the billing code this page is about

Reconstructive surgery on the small canals in the eyelids that carry tears from the eye toward the tear sac.

Hospitals typically charge $2,591 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 474 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $2,600. Most fall between $1,089 and $4,372 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
474
States
46
Filings dated
Mar 2023 – 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 474 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
$783$1,237$2,591$3,903$6,355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 8.1× what the cheapest tenth charges ($783 vs $6,355).

How the prices are spread

$655 – $828: 26 hospitals$655$828 – $1,047: 28 hospitals$1,047 – $1,325: 44 hospitals$1,047$1,325 – $1,675: 44 hospitals$1,675 – $2,119: 29 hospitals$1,675$2,119 – $2,680: 46 hospitals$2,680 – $3,390: 87 hospitals$2,680$3,390 – $4,288: 47 hospitals$4,288 – $5,423: 41 hospitals$4,288$5,423 – $6,860: 36 hospitals$5,423median $2,591price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (428 of 474 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$655$82826
$828$1,04728
$1,047$1,32544
$1,325$1,67544
$1,675$2,11929
$2,119$2,68046
$2,680$3,39087
$3,390$4,28847
$4,288$5,42341
$5,423$6,86036

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,429
Median cash price$2,591
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.07×

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 $2,591.

Alaska: 2 hospitals 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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $2,592 across 19 hospitalsMN$2,592Illinois: median $1,432 across 16 hospitalsIL$1,432Wisconsin: median $3,782 across 22 hospitalsWI$3,782Michigan: median $3,782 across 18 hospitalsMI$3,782New York: median $2,761 across 28 hospitalsNY$2,761Massachusetts: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $1,133 across 15 hospitalsOR$1,133Nevada: 2 hospitals 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 $1,497 across 14 hospitalsIA$1,497Indiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $2,733 across 34 hospitalsPA$2,733New Jersey: median $3,113 across 33 hospitalsNJ$3,113Connecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceRICalifornia: median $4,251 across 51 hospitalsCA$4,251Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: median $1,423 across 14 hospitalsVA$1,423Maryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 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: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 4 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: median $4,372 across 17 hospitalsSC$4,372Oklahoma: median $977 across 12 hospitalsOK$977Louisiana: median $1,624 across 14 hospitalsLA$1,624Mississippi: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: median $3,903 across 15 hospitalsGA$3,903Hawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,542 across 28 hospitalsTX$2,542Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $2,591. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
South Carolina SC17$4,372+69%$4,111 – $4,372
California CA51$4,251+64%$1,056 – $6,367
Georgia GA15$3,903+51%$1,607 – $3,903
Michigan MI18$3,782+46%$3,269 – $7,577
Wisconsin WI22$3,782+46%$2,803 – $3,782
New Jersey NJ33$3,113+20%$2,585 – $5,601
New York NY28$2,761+7%$2,761 – $4,320
Pennsylvania PA34$2,733+5%$197 – $3,623
Minnesota MN19$2,5920%$2,446 – $2,955
Texas TX28$2,542−2%$1,872 – $3,116
Louisiana LA14$1,624−37%$1,175 – $2,459
Iowa IA14$1,497−42%$1,497 – $1,497
Illinois IL16$1,432−45%$655 – $3,137
Virginia VA14$1,423−45%$394 – $1,692
Oregon OR15$1,133−56%$1,089 – $4,205
Oklahoma OK12$977−62%$977 – $977
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wyoming WY2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not 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 $2,591.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care410$2,591$1,089 – $4,372
Children’s11fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access53$2,803$767 – $3,782
Ownership
For-profit45$2,091$724 – $4,111
Government64$2,280$1,200 – $3,566
Non-profit365$2,733$1,089 – $4,372
System affiliation
Part of a system401$2,733$1,089 – $4,372
Independent73$2,194$1,066 – $4,251

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$4,123
Median cash price$2,591
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

309 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $2,304 and the average of the middle 60% is $2,419; most fall between $977 and $4,372.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 309 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
$655$1,066$2,304$4,106$6,367

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 9.7× what the cheapest tenth charges ($655 vs $6,367).

Of the 336 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 309 gave a usable cash price; 16 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 11 a list price only.

How complete is this

474 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (12%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 517 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted474
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here27
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded2
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded3
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded11
Hospitals that filed this code517

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 Plastic Repair Canaliculi.

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, “Surgical repair of the tear drainage channels (CPT 68700) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-68700-surgical-repair-of-the-tear-drainage-channels