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Surgical mesh implant

HCPCS C1781the billing code this page is about

Covers the cost of the mesh implanted to reinforce tissue, such as in hernia repair; this charge is for the mesh material only, separate from the operation.

Hospitals typically charge $219 cash for this outpatient procedure — the median across 214 hospitals that filed a usable cash price; the average of the middle 60% is $345. Most fall between $61 and $855 (20th–80th percentile).

Hospitals
214
States
40
Filings dated
Dec 2023 – Sep 2026
Computed
September 25, 2026
Prices checked
through September 23, 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 214 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
$38$83$219$818$1,640

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 43× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $1,640).

How the prices are spread

$24 – $41: 21 hospitals$24$41 – $69: 15 hospitals$69 – $116: 37 hospitals$69$116 – $195: 21 hospitals$195 – $328: 17 hospitals$195$328 – $553: 14 hospitals$553 – $930: 42 hospitals$553$930 – $1,565: 15 hospitals$1,565 – $2,635: 8 hospitals$1,565$2,635 – $4,435: 4 hospitals$2,635median $219price bands are equal on a log scale
Hospitals per price band (194 of 214 — the bands cover the 5th to 95th percentile)
FromToHospitals
$24$4121
$41$6915
$69$11637
$116$19521
$195$32817
$328$55314
$553$93042
$930$1,56515
$1,565$2,6358
$2,635$4,4354

By state

The median cash price in each state, against the national median of $219.

Alaska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceAKMaine: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMEVermont: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceVTNew Hampshire: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNHWashington: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWAIdaho: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureIDMontana: 3 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 $106 across 15 hospitalsMN$106Illinois: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureILWisconsin: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWIMichigan: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMINew York: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNYMassachusetts: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMAOregon: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureORNevada: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNVWyoming: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceWYSouth Dakota: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceSDIowa: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceIAIndiana: median $94 across 22 hospitalsIN$94Ohio: 9 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOHPennsylvania: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figurePANew Jersey: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNJConnecticut: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCTRhode Island: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureRICalifornia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCAUtah: median $760 across 24 hospitalsUT$760Colorado: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureCONebraska: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceNEMissouri: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMOKentucky: 6 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureKYWest Virginia: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureWVVirginia: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureVAMaryland: 1 hospital filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMDDelaware: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceDEArizona: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureAZNew Mexico: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNMKansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceKSArkansas: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceARTennessee: median $671 across 11 hospitalsTN$671North Carolina: 7 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureNCSouth Carolina: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureSCOklahoma: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureOKLouisiana: 5 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureLAMississippi: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureMSAlabama: 3 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureALGeorgia: 2 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureGAHawaii: no hospital in the corpus filed a usable priceHITexas: 4 hospitals filed a usable price — fewer than 10, so no figureTXFlorida: median $38 across 18 hospitalsFL$38
Cash price by state, most expensive first. National median $219. A state needs at least 10 hospitals with a usable price to show a figure.
StateHospitalsMedianvs national20th–80th
Utah UT24$760+248%$664 – $855
Tennessee TN11$671+207%$107 – $1,341
Minnesota MN15$106−52%$94 – $106
Indiana IN22$94−57%$70 – $166
Florida FL18$38−83%$12 – $38
New York NY9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Ohio OH9not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maine ME7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Carolina NC7not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Kentucky KY6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Michigan MI6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Jersey NJ6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Pennsylvania PA6not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Louisiana LA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Virginia VA5not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Illinois IL4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Missouri MO4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Mexico NM4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Texas TX4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
West Virginia WV4not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Alabama AL3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Montana MT3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
New Hampshire NH3not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Arizona AZ2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
California CA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Colorado CO2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Georgia GA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Massachusetts MA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Mississippi MS2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Nevada NV2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oklahoma OK2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Oregon OR2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
South Carolina SC2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Washington WA2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Wisconsin WI2not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Connecticut CT1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Idaho ID1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Maryland MD1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
North Dakota ND1not enough hospitals filed a usable price
Rhode Island RI1not 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 $219.

Cash price by hospital segment. A segment needs at least 20 hospitals to show a figure.
SegmentHospitalsMedian20th–80th
Hospital type
Acute care159$262$50 – $1,187
Children’s6fewer than 20 hospitals
Critical access48$147$103 – $664
Ownership
For-profit37$664$166 – $1,357
Government33$238$38 – $1,446
Non-profit143$163$54 – $818
System affiliation
Part of a system168$187$54 – $855
Independent46$256$90 – $830

Cash price vs list price

Median list price (chargemaster)$466
Median cash price$219
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

142 hospitals filed a usable inpatient cash price for this code. The median is $145 and the average of the middle 60% is $237; most fall between $43 and $664.

Cash price percentiles, inpatient, across 142 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
$38$56$145$664$855

The most expensive tenth of hospitals charges at least 23× what the cheapest tenth charges ($38 vs $855).

Of the 160 hospitals that filed this code inpatient, 142 gave a usable cash price; 3 carried a plausibility flag, 0 filed a number their own filing marks as not a price, 0 gave an estimate, and 15 a list price only.

How complete is this

214 of the 3,956 hospitals with a price file in our corpus (5%) filed a usable outpatient cash price for this code, and those are the hospitals every figure on this page is computed from.

What the 237 hospitals that filed this code at all gave us
Usable cash price — counted214
Cash price carrying a plausibility flag — shown on the compare tool, excluded here5
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 — excluded18
Hospitals that filed this code237

Sections not shown for this setting

  • Against Medicare: Medicare has no separately payable national outpatient (OPPS) rate for this code, so there is nothing honest to compare against.
  • 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 23, 2026; the figures were computed September 25, 2026 from filings loaded through September 23, 2026. The percentiles and averages use only the “counted” row.

Hospitals file this code under descriptions such as GRAFT DERMIS AXIS TUTOPLAST 4X7CM.

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 mesh implant (CPT C1781) — cash price report,” computed September 25, 2026. https://hospitalrates.com/procedures/cpt-c1781-surgical-mesh-implant