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Outpatient procedure · APC 5491 · Surgery or procedure

Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

In 2024, Medicare and patients paid an average of $2,208 per procedure at 1,174 hospitals. Half of hospitals averaged between $2,008 and $2,312.

Also known as: Cataract surgery, eye surgery, glaucoma surgery

National figures, 2024

Average payment per case
$2,208
Typical range (middle half of hospitals)
$2,008–$2,312
Medicare’s share
$1,75279% of the payment
Average billed charge
$13,330
Hospitals reporting
1,174275,392 procedures

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Specific hospitals up to 10

1,169 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024; showing 801–850. Download as CSV

HospitalCasesAverage paymentvs national averageMedicare paidBilled charge
AdventHealth PorterDenver, CO · CCN 06006412$2,218About average$1,767$22,336
Denver Health & Hospital AuthorityDenver, CO · CCN 060011121$2,218About average$1,766$11,396
Christus Mother Frances Hospital Sulphur SpringsSulphur Springs, TX · CCN 45023665$2,219About average$1,757$42,956
Hannibal Regional HospitalHannibal, MO · CCN 260025110$2,221About average$1,770$10,671
Intermountain Health Sevier Valley HospitalRichfield, UT · CCN 460026245$2,221About average$1,764$4,961
Independence Health System Clarion HospitalClarion, PA · CCN 390093229$2,221About average$1,766$4,653
Nazareth HospitalPhiladelphia, PA · CCN 39020418$2,222About average$1,770$12,785
Penn Highlands DuboisDubois, PA · CCN 390086274$2,223About average$1,770$6,266
Memorial HospitalLogansport, IN · CCN 15007266$2,225About average$1,773$9,352
Norton-King's Daughters' HealthMadison, IN · CCN 15006913$2,225About average$1,753$8,987
Banner North Colorado Medical CenterGreeley, CO · CCN 06000129$2,227About average$1,774$11,861
Lakeview Memorial HospitalStillwater, MN · CCN 24006639$2,228About average$1,775$7,229
Cambridge Medical CenterCambridge, MN · CCN 240020129$2,228About average$1,773$9,258
Hennepin County Medical CenterMinneapolis, MN · CCN 24000449$2,228About average$1,766$16,985
Northfield HospitalNorthfield, MN · CCN 24001426$2,228About average$1,755$9,309
UPMC SomersetSomerset, PA · CCN 39003919$2,229About average$1,776$11,925
UPMC Bedford MemorialEverett, PA · CCN 39011780$2,229About average$1,776$8,264
Meadville Medical CenterMeadville, PA · CCN 390113294$2,229About average$1,775$8,351
Punxsutawney Area HospitalPunxsutawney, PA · CCN 39019976$2,229About average$1,771$8,363
Saint James HospitalPontiac, IL · CCN 14016132$2,230About average$1,753$9,653
North Texas Medical CenterGainesville, TX · CCN 450090244$2,231About average$1,773$7,800
Indiana Regional Medical CenterIndiana, PA · CCN 39017340$2,233About average$1,776$10,935
Mile Bluff Medical CenterMauston, WI · CCN 52010973$2,233About average$1,779$9,139
Howard Young Medical CenterWoodruff, WI · CCN 52009183$2,233About average$1,776$8,233
Exeter Hospital IncExeter, NH · CCN 30002351$2,234About average$1,780$12,212
Olmsted Medical CenterRochester, MN · CCN 240006264$2,235About average$1,779$7,883
Augusta HealthFishersville, VA · CCN 4900181,299$2,235About average$1,776$9,413
Ashley Regional Medical CenterVernal, UT · CCN 46003059$2,236About average$1,773$14,345
Wayne Memorial HospitalHonesdale, PA · CCN 39012560$2,236About average$1,777$10,663
Loyola University Medical CenterMaywood, IL · CCN 140276254$2,238About average$1,777$9,148
Mary Rutan HospitalBellefontaine, OH · CCN 360197191$2,240About average$1,784$18,890
University Of Illinois Hospital And ClinicsChicago, IL · CCN 140150465$2,244About average$1,782$14,787
Doylestown HospitalDoylestown, PA · CCN 39020311$2,248About average$1,791$18,177
St Luke's Hospital - Grand View CampusSellersville, PA · CCN 39005730$2,248About average$1,791$13,786
Phoenixville HospitalPhoenixville, PA · CCN 390127530$2,248About average$1,791$13,229
The University Of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL · CCN 140088411$2,249About average$1,788$24,954
Rush University Medical CenterChicago, IL · CCN 140119225$2,250About average$1,790$18,989
St Alexius Medical CenterHoffman Estates, IL · CCN 140290251$2,252About average$1,788$13,070
Northwestern Memorial HospitalChicago, IL · CCN 1402811,330$2,254About average$1,793$21,161
Loyola Gottlieb Memorial HospitalMelrose Park, IL · CCN 140008296$2,254About average$1,792$7,563
Riddle Memorial HospitalMedia, PA · CCN 390222203$2,255About average$1,794$9,985
Northwestern Medicine Delnor Community HospitalGeneva, IL · CCN 140211319$2,255About average$1,792$17,205
Mayo Clinic HospitalPhoenix, AZ · CCN 030103533$2,257About average$1,795$9,818
Copley Memorial HospitalAurora, IL · CCN 140029220$2,259About average$1,792$20,386
Beloit Health SystemBeloit, WI · CCN 520100270$2,261About average$1,798$20,586
Ed Fraser Memorial HospitalMacclenny, FL · CCN 10013423$2,261About average$1,801$4,943
Jackson HospitalMarianna, FL · CCN 10014216$2,261About average$1,801$8,695
Lower Keys Medical CenterKey West, FL · CCN 10015031$2,261About average$1,799$25,575
Flagler HospitalSaint Augustine, FL · CCN 100090191$2,261About average$1,799$10,858
OSF Saint Elizabeth Mdl CenterPeru, IL · CCN 140110342$2,261About average$1,800$13,985

National trend

Average payment and billed charge per procedure, and how many Medicare procedures were reported each year.

  • Average payment
  • Average billed charge
2020: 303,574 procedures at 1,440 hospitals · 2021: 341,836 procedures at 1,390 hospitals · 2022: 327,200 procedures at 1,330 hospitals · 2023: 300,166 procedures at 1,274 hospitals · 2024: 275,392 procedures at 1,174 hospitals
View data as a table
Year of careAverage paymentAverage billed charge
2020$2,009$11K
2021$2,084$11K
2022$2,104$12K
2023$2,122$13K
2024$2,208$13K

By state, 2024

Case-weighted average payment across each state’s reporting hospitals, lowest first.

Show all 50 states
StateHospitalsCasesAverage paymentTypical range
Vermont51,365$1,109$1,083–$1,377
Mississippi121,732$1,738$1,903–$2,002
South Carolina133,827$1,770$1,983–$1,996
New Mexico5990$1,781$1,990–$2,063
Ohio5113,884$1,898$1,967–$2,067
Alabama314,825$1,907$1,863–$1,941
Kansas184,409$1,923$1,989–$2,118
Tennessee253,090$1,924$1,896–$1,989
Louisiana367,147$1,951$1,904–$1,974
West Virginia153,623$1,954$1,928–$2,038
Missouri275,635$1,956$2,014–$2,133
Pennsylvania6415,080$1,974$2,078–$2,234
Nebraska53,401$1,974$2,068–$2,100
Kentucky294,512$1,995$1,955–$2,004
Arkansas101,988$1,998$1,983–$2,088
Florida285,055$2,005$2,060–$2,111
Oklahoma274,402$2,020$1,962–$2,022
Iowa185,707$2,033$1,986–$2,111
Georgia395,409$2,050$1,959–$2,132
Michigan528,395$2,051$2,030–$2,150
Texas6914,253$2,069$2,003–$2,148
Utah163,812$2,084$2,062–$2,117
North Carolina5217,278$2,087$2,028–$2,100
Virginia298,560$2,088$1,998–$2,154
Indiana317,128$2,093$2,066–$2,127
Idaho2178$2,114$2,108–$2,157
Maine7845$2,121$2,071–$2,162
Wisconsin4310,839$2,122$2,096–$2,192
Montana41,118$2,155$2,149–$2,174
Wyoming3828$2,156$2,200–$2,308
Alaska4544$2,159$2,038–$2,545
Illinois7118,582$2,182$2,154–$2,234
Colorado133,761$2,229$2,218–$2,345
North Dakota31,399$2,253$2,177–$2,246
Arizona7712$2,260$2,265–$2,328
Minnesota286,855$2,279$2,200–$2,323
South Dakota81,896$2,280$2,174–$2,334
Delaware2336$2,305$2,287–$2,315
New Hampshire61,787$2,306$2,217–$2,329
District of Columbia3587$2,345$2,340–$2,355
Rhode Island4434$2,362$2,360–$2,365
Washington154,590$2,422$2,331–$2,483
Oregon92,473$2,455$2,421–$2,526
Massachusetts228,017$2,488$2,476–$2,503
New Jersey202,849$2,551$2,440–$2,626
Connecticut164,232$2,561$2,575–$2,600
New York7521,019$2,571$2,471–$2,640
Hawaii2159$2,705$2,633–$2,791
Nevada112$2,829$2,829–$2,829
California9925,833$2,982$2,855–$3,215

About these numbers

Average payment is what Medicare paid plus the patient’s deductible and coinsurance (and any other insurer), averaged over the hospital’s Medicare cases. It covers the hospital’s part of the care; doctors bill separately. For outpatient procedures it is Medicare’s allowed amount, which leaves out extra “outlier” payments for unusually costly cases; those are shown under the hospital name where CMS reported any, and included in the CSV. Billed charges are the hospital’s list prices, which few patients pay.

Medicare sets its payments by formula, adjusting for local wages, teaching programs, the share of low-income patients and unusually costly cases. Those adjustments drive most differences between hospitals, so a lower payment doesn’t mean better or worse care, and Medicare patients’ own costs usually vary much less than the totals. Private insurance pays different, usually higher, prices.

Source: CMS Medicare Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service (Medicare fee-for-service claims). CMS omits hospitals with fewer than 11 procedures. More in the glossary.