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Procedure price report · Other extraocular muscle and orbit therapeutic procedures

Unlisted procedure on the tear drainage system

CPT 68899the billing code this page is about

Used for a procedure on the tear ducts and tear sac that has no specific billing code of its own; the surgeon's report describes what was done.

Hospitals typically charge $491 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 256 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $1,186. Most fall between $318 and $4,039 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
256
States
38
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 256 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
$233$331$491$3,947$5,855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 25× what the cheapest tenth charges ($233 vs $5,855).

How the prices are spread

$100 – $152: 7 hospitals$100$152 – $232: 5 hospitals$232 – $355: 54 hospitals$232$355 – $542: 65 hospitals$542 – $827: 20 hospitals$542$827 – $1,263: 13 hospitals$1,263 – $1,929: 5 hospitals$1,263$1,929 – $2,946: 3 hospitals$2,946 – $4,499: 36 hospitals$2,946$4,499 – $6,871: 33 hospitals$4,499median $491price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (241 of 256 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$100$1527
$152$2325
$232$35554
$355$54265
$542$82720
$827$1,26313
$1,263$1,9295
$1,929$2,9463
$2,946$4,49936
$4,499$6,87133

Against Medicare

Medicare pays (OPPS 2026, national rate)$324
Median cash price$491
Cash as a multiple of Medicare1.51×

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 $491.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNHWashington: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceMTNorth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNDMinnesota: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMNIllinois: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: median $354 across 20 hospitalsNY$354Massachusetts: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSDIowa: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIAIndiana: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureINOhio: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: median $127 across 17 hospitalsPA$127New Jersey: median $401 across 30 hospitalsNJ$401Connecticut: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: median $4,039 across 46 hospitalsCA$4,039Utah: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureUTColorado: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNEMissouri: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKYWest Virginia: median $348 across 10 hospitalsWV$348Virginia: median $318 across 14 hospitalsVA$318Maryland: 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: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKSArkansas: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureARTennessee: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTNNorth Carolina: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: median $3,947 across 15 hospitalsSC$3,947Oklahoma: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: median $480 across 17 hospitalsTX$480Florida: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureFL
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $491. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
California CA46$4,039+723%$575 – $6,871
South Carolina SC15$3,947+705%$602 – $3,947
Texas TX17$480−2%$480 – $480
New Jersey NJ30$401−18%$331 – $5,110
New York NY20$354−28%$354 – $396
West Virginia WV10$348−29%$274 – $406
Virginia VA14$318−35%$258 – $534
Pennsylvania PA17$127−74%$100 – $505
Missouri MO9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Florida FL6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Iowa IA3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Minnesota MN3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Indiana IN2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Tennessee TN2not 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
Kansas KS1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nebraska NE1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Dakota SD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Utah UT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA1not 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 $491.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care235$501$327 – $4,039
Children’s4fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access16fewer than 20 hospitals
Ownership
For-profit19fewer than 20 hospitals
Government34$390$310 – $1,411
Non-profit202$506$318 – $4,039
System affiliation
Part of a system227$491$318 – $4,039
Independent29$496$318 – $1,030

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$972
Median cash price$491
Cash as a share of list, median hospital52%

At the typical hospital, asking for the cash price cuts the list price by about 48%. 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

151 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $480 and the average of the middle 60% is $1,452; most fall between $241 and $4,039.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 151 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
$117$307$480$3,947$6,871

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 59× what the cheapest tenth charges ($117 vs $6,871).

Of the 161 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 151 gave a usable cash price; 7 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 3 a list price only.

How complete is this

256 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (6%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 268 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted256
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here8
A number the filing itself marks as not a price (a placeholder, a ratio) — excluded1
An estimate rather than a filed cash price — excluded0
A list price only, no cash figure — excluded3
Hospitals that filed this code268

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 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Related procedures

Part of the Other extraocular muscle and orbit therapeutic procedures family.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as Unlisted Procedure Lacrimal System.

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, “Unlisted procedure on the tear drainage system (CPT 68899) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-68899-unlisted-procedure-on-the-tear-drainage-system