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

Probing a blocked tear duct under general anesthesia

CPT 68811the billing code this page is about

Passing a thin probe through the tear duct between the eye and nose to open a blockage, performed while the patient is fully asleep under general anesthesia.

Hospitals typically charge $1,652 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 379 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,788. Most fall between $320 and $4,111 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
379
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 379 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
$226$365$1,652$3,269$6,311

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 28× what the cheapest tenth charges ($226 vs $6,311).

How the prices are spread

$206 – $293: 51 hospitals$206$293 – $417: 31 hospitals$417 – $593: 22 hospitals$417$593 – $843: 13 hospitals$843 – $1,200: 27 hospitals$843$1,200 – $1,707: 38 hospitals$1,707 – $2,428: 25 hospitals$1,707$2,428 – $3,454: 64 hospitals$3,454 – $4,913: 38 hospitals$3,454$4,913 – $6,989: 41 hospitals$4,913median $1,652price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (350 of 379 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$206$29351
$293$41731
$417$59322
$593$84313
$843$1,20027
$1,200$1,70738
$1,707$2,42825
$2,428$3,45464
$3,454$4,91338
$4,913$6,98941

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$2,429
Median cash price$1,652
Cash as a multiple of Medicare0.68×

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 $1,652.

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: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 8 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMTNorth Dakota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: median $951 across 19 hospitalsMN$951Illinois: median $475 across 16 hospitalsIL$475Wisconsin: median $988 across 26 hospitalsWI$988Michigan: median $1,670 across 23 hospitalsMI$1,670New York: median $2,761 across 25 hospitalsNY$2,761Massachusetts: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: median $254 across 11 hospitalsOR$254Nevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWYSouth Dakota: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: median $365 across 15 hospitalsIA$365Indiana: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $1,632 across 18 hospitalsPA$1,632New Jersey: median $3,113 across 29 hospitalsNJ$3,113Connecticut: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $6,989 across 32 hospitalsCA$6,989Utah: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureDEArizona: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNMKansas: 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: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: median $219 across 13 hospitalsOK$219Louisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureHITexas: median $2,089 across 23 hospitalsTX$2,089Florida: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $1,652. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA32$6,989+323%$1,494 – $6,989
New Jersey NJ29$3,113+88%$2,582 – $5,339
New York NY25$2,761+67%$768 – $2,968
Texas TX23$2,089+26%$1,985 – $2,678
Michigan MI23$1,670+1%$988 – $3,269
Pennsylvania PA18$1,632−1%$86 – $4,396
Wisconsin WI26$988−40%$988 – $2,212
Minnesota MN19$951−42%$460 – $951
Illinois IL16$475−71%$238 – $4,554
Iowa IA15$365−78%$365 – $365
Oregon OR11$254−85%$246 – $254
Oklahoma OK13$219−87%$219 – $2,686
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID8not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kansas KS5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arkansas AR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Vermont VT2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alaska AK1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Delaware DE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Hawaii HI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $1,652.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care309$2,089$336 – $4,552
Children’s13fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access57$988$261 – $2,089
Ownership
For-profit39$1,985$261 – $4,177
Government46$1,625$308 – $2,920
Non-profit294$1,632$333 – $4,156
System affiliation
Part of a system313$1,670$365 – $4,111
Independent66$686$304 – $4,035

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$1,520
Median cash price$1,652
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

225 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $988 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,163; most fall between $238 and $3,944.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 225 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
$219$246$988$2,678$6,355

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 29× what the cheapest tenth charges ($219 vs $6,355).

Of the 245 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 225 gave a usable cash price; 18 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 2 a list price only.

How complete is this

379 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 424 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted379
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here40
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 — excluded5
Hospitals that filed this code424

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 Probe Nasolacrimal Duct W/WO Irrig Req Gen Anes.

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, “Probing a blocked tear duct under general anesthesia (CPT 68811) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-68811-probing-a-blocked-tear-duct-under-general-anesthesia