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
- $1,752
- Average billed charge
- $13,330
- Hospitals reporting
- 1,174
Compare hospitals
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1,169 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024; showing 201–250. Download as CSV
| Hospital | Cases | Average payment | vs national average | Medicare paid | Billed charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillcrest Hospital Claremore | 171 | $1,979 | 10% below the national average | $1,577 | $12,299 |
| MercyOne Newton Medical Center | 79 | $1,980 | 10% below the national average | $1,573 | $6,970 |
| Sentara Norfolk General Hospital | 69 | $1,981 | 10% below the national average | $1,569 | $21,697 |
| Wood County Hospital | 106 | $1,982 | 10% below the national average | $1,577 | $4,862 |
| Mercy Hospital Fort Smith | 44 | $1,982 | 10% below the national average | $1,579 | $4,328 |
| University Of Kentucky Hospital | 134 | $1,982 | 10% below the national average | $1,567 | $13,141 |
| Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak | 163 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,553 | $19,023 |
| MH St Joseph Warren Hospital | 20 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,580 | $9,264 |
| Salem Regional Medical Center | 85 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,580 | $12,510 |
| Trinity Medical Center East &Trinity Medical Center West | 24 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,580 | $7,199 |
| East Liverpool City Hospital | 27 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,579 | $7,483 |
| Surgical Hospital At Southwoods | 88 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,577 | $11,602 |
| Mercer County Joint Township Community Hospital | 74 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,577 | $5,865 |
| Kings Daughters Medical Center Ohio | 12 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,577 | $5,496 |
| Saint Joseph Mount Sterling | 169 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,578 | $5,342 |
| Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital | 117 | $1,983 | 10% below the national average | $1,575 | $10,077 |
| Manhattan Surgical Hospital LLC | 381 | $1,984 | 10% below the national average | $1,578 | $8,127 |
| Guadalupe Regional Medical Center | 331 | $1,984 | 10% below the national average | $1,572 | $9,543 |
| Spencer Municipal Hospital | 514 | $1,984 | 10% below the national average | $1,578 | $6,890 |
| Sartori Memorial Hospital, Inc | 462 | $1,985 | 10% below the national average | $1,576 | $12,695 |
| KershawHealth | 69 | $1,985 | 10% below the national average | $1,582 | $13,690 |
| Baptist Health Richmond | 387 | $1,985 | 10% below the national average | $1,575 | $15,380 |
| Memorial Healthcare System, Inc | 51 | $1,986 | 10% below the national average | $1,582 | $10,260 |
| McLeod Health Cheraw | 99 | $1,986 | 10% below the national average | $1,575 | $6,973 |
| Clark Regional Medical Center | 101 | $1,986 | 10% below the national average | $1,576 | $11,743 |
| Medical College Of Virginia Hospitals | 129 | $1,986 | 10% below the national average | $1,562 | $19,466 |
| Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center | 85 | $1,987 | 10% below the national average | $1,571 | $17,184 |
| Conway Regional Medical Center, Inc | 609 | $1,987 | About average | $1,578 | $9,941 |
| Bellevue Hospital | 23 | $1,988 | About average | $1,575 | $9,129 |
| Riverside Regional Medical Center | 2,609 | $1,988 | About average | $1,579 | $10,456 |
| Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center | 71 | $1,988 | About average | $1,573 | $26,584 |
| Uofl Health - Jewish Hospital And Mary & Elizabeth Hospital | 166 | $1,988 | About average | $1,579 | $12,908 |
| SSM Health St Anthony Hospital - Shawnee | 365 | $1,989 | About average | $1,580 | $7,674 |
| Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital | 492 | $1,989 | About average | $1,577 | $13,112 |
| Salina Surgical Hospital | 614 | $1,989 | About average | $1,584 | $3,977 |
| UnityPoint Health - Des Moines Iowa Methodist Medi | 465 | $1,989 | About average | $1,581 | $6,657 |
| Hillcrest Hospital | 646 | $1,989 | About average | $1,585 | $7,844 |
| Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital | 147 | $1,990 | About average | $1,585 | $4,862 |
| Doctors Hospital Of Laredo | 197 | $1,990 | About average | $1,576 | $21,630 |
| St Elizabeth Ft Thomas | 44 | $1,990 | About average | $1,574 | $9,720 |
| Roosevelt General Hospital | 110 | $1,990 | About average | $1,578 | $12,612 |
| Willis Knighton Medical Center | 2,057 | $1,990 | About average | $1,578 | $14,162 |
| Harper University Hospital | 111 | $1,991 | About average | $1,568 | $29,738 |
| St Lukes Hospital | 20 | $1,991 | About average | $1,570 | $10,764 |
| University Of Michigan Health - West | 280 | $1,992 | About average | $1,574 | $5,265 |
| University Of Arkansas Medical Sciences | 305 | $1,992 | About average | $1,582 | $7,529 |
| Erlanger Medical Center | 25 | $1,992 | About average | $1,587 | $13,378 |
| Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchest | 25 | $1,992 | About average | $1,587 | $13,952 |
| Upper Valley Medical Center | 146 | $1,993 | About average | $1,587 | $12,072 |
| Vidant Duplin Hospital | 107 | $1,993 | About average | $1,572 | $6,468 |
National trend
Average payment and billed charge per procedure, and how many Medicare procedures were reported each year.
- Average payment
- Average billed charge
View data as a table
| Year of care | Average payment | Average 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.
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| State | Hospitals | Cases | Average payment | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 5 | 1,365 | $1,109 | $1,083–$1,377 |
| Mississippi | 12 | 1,732 | $1,738 | $1,903–$2,002 |
| South Carolina | 13 | 3,827 | $1,770 | $1,983–$1,996 |
| New Mexico | 5 | 990 | $1,781 | $1,990–$2,063 |
| Ohio | 51 | 13,884 | $1,898 | $1,967–$2,067 |
| Alabama | 31 | 4,825 | $1,907 | $1,863–$1,941 |
| Kansas | 18 | 4,409 | $1,923 | $1,989–$2,118 |
| Tennessee | 25 | 3,090 | $1,924 | $1,896–$1,989 |
| Louisiana | 36 | 7,147 | $1,951 | $1,904–$1,974 |
| West Virginia | 15 | 3,623 | $1,954 | $1,928–$2,038 |
| Missouri | 27 | 5,635 | $1,956 | $2,014–$2,133 |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | 15,080 | $1,974 | $2,078–$2,234 |
| Nebraska | 5 | 3,401 | $1,974 | $2,068–$2,100 |
| Kentucky | 29 | 4,512 | $1,995 | $1,955–$2,004 |
| Arkansas | 10 | 1,988 | $1,998 | $1,983–$2,088 |
| Florida | 28 | 5,055 | $2,005 | $2,060–$2,111 |
| Oklahoma | 27 | 4,402 | $2,020 | $1,962–$2,022 |
| Iowa | 18 | 5,707 | $2,033 | $1,986–$2,111 |
| Georgia | 39 | 5,409 | $2,050 | $1,959–$2,132 |
| Michigan | 52 | 8,395 | $2,051 | $2,030–$2,150 |
| Texas | 69 | 14,253 | $2,069 | $2,003–$2,148 |
| Utah | 16 | 3,812 | $2,084 | $2,062–$2,117 |
| North Carolina | 52 | 17,278 | $2,087 | $2,028–$2,100 |
| Virginia | 29 | 8,560 | $2,088 | $1,998–$2,154 |
| Indiana | 31 | 7,128 | $2,093 | $2,066–$2,127 |
| Idaho | 2 | 178 | $2,114 | $2,108–$2,157 |
| Maine | 7 | 845 | $2,121 | $2,071–$2,162 |
| Wisconsin | 43 | 10,839 | $2,122 | $2,096–$2,192 |
| Montana | 4 | 1,118 | $2,155 | $2,149–$2,174 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 828 | $2,156 | $2,200–$2,308 |
| Alaska | 4 | 544 | $2,159 | $2,038–$2,545 |
| Illinois | 71 | 18,582 | $2,182 | $2,154–$2,234 |
| Colorado | 13 | 3,761 | $2,229 | $2,218–$2,345 |
| North Dakota | 3 | 1,399 | $2,253 | $2,177–$2,246 |
| Arizona | 7 | 712 | $2,260 | $2,265–$2,328 |
| Minnesota | 28 | 6,855 | $2,279 | $2,200–$2,323 |
| South Dakota | 8 | 1,896 | $2,280 | $2,174–$2,334 |
| Delaware | 2 | 336 | $2,305 | $2,287–$2,315 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | 1,787 | $2,306 | $2,217–$2,329 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | 587 | $2,345 | $2,340–$2,355 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 434 | $2,362 | $2,360–$2,365 |
| Washington | 15 | 4,590 | $2,422 | $2,331–$2,483 |
| Oregon | 9 | 2,473 | $2,455 | $2,421–$2,526 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | 8,017 | $2,488 | $2,476–$2,503 |
| New Jersey | 20 | 2,849 | $2,551 | $2,440–$2,626 |
| Connecticut | 16 | 4,232 | $2,561 | $2,575–$2,600 |
| New York | 75 | 21,019 | $2,571 | $2,471–$2,640 |
| Hawaii | 2 | 159 | $2,705 | $2,633–$2,791 |
| Nevada | 1 | 12 | $2,829 | $2,829–$2,829 |
| California | 99 | 25,833 | $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.