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

Hospitals in North Carolina

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Average payment across these 51 hospitals: $2,090National $2,208 · North Carolina $2,087
Median hospital: $2,070
Lowest to highest: $1,993–$2,348
Medicare procedures: 16,580

51 hospitals reported at least 11 Medicare procedures for this in 2024; showing 1–50. Download as CSV

Medicare payments per case for Level 1 Intraocular Procedures by hospital, 2024
Hospital	Cases	Average payment	vs national average	Medicare paid	Billed charge
Vidant Duplin HospitalKenansville, NC · CCN 340120	107	$1,993	About average	$1,572	$6,468
Hugh Chatham Memorial HospitalElkin, NC · CCN 340097	130	$2,000	About average	$1,586	$10,805
Betsy Johnson Regional HospitalDunn, NC · CCN 340071	274	$2,005	About average	$1,592	$4,924
Maria Parham Medical CenterHenderson, NC · CCN 340132	153	$2,007	About average	$1,593	$17,314
Wilkes Regional Medical CenterNorth Wilkesboro, NC · CCN 340064	165	$2,008	About average	$1,594	$20,240
Ecu Health Medical CenterGreenville, NC · CCN 340040	424	$2,009	About average	$1,596	$10,023
UNC Health NashRocky Mount, NC · CCN 340147	653	$2,009	About average	$1,587	$9,231
Wilson Medical CenterWilson, NC · CCN 340126	367	$2,021	About average	$1,599	$19,818
Novant Health Brunswick Medical CenterSupply, NC · CCN 340158	156	$2,028	About average	$1,616	$12,744
Haywood Regional Medical CenterClyde, NC · CCN 340184	142	$2,028	About average	$1,616	$12,477
Memorial Mission Hospital And Asheville Surgery CeAsheville, NC · CCN 340002	107	$2,028	About average	$1,616	$18,086
Pardee Hospital Henderson CountyHendersonville, NC · CCN 340017	78	$2,028	About average	$1,616	$9,003
Harris Regional HospitalSylva, NC · CCN 340016	181	$2,028	About average	$1,616	$13,148
Northern Regional HospitalMount Airy, NC · CCN 340003	128	$2,028	About average	$1,614	$3,780
Columbus Regional Healthcare SystemWhiteville, NC · CCN 340068	73	$2,028	About average	$1,612	$14,043
Granville Health SystemsOxford, NC · CCN 340127	135	$2,029	About average	$1,600	$12,102
Randolph HospitalAsheboro, NC · CCN 340123	88	$2,033	About average	$1,607	$14,831
Scotland Memorial HospitalLaurinburg, NC · CCN 340008	131	$2,034	About average	$1,611	$11,472
Atrium Health UnionMonroe, NC · CCN 340130	28	$2,034	About average	$1,608	$20,304
Iredell Memorial Hospital IncStatesville, NC · CCN 340039	285	$2,043	About average	$1,619	$6,664
FirstHealth Moore Regional HospitalPinehurst, NC · CCN 340115	103	$2,049	About average	$1,627	$9,702
Catawba Valley Medical CenterHickory, NC · CCN 340143	32	$2,058	About average	$1,640	$12,615
Central Carolina HospitalSanford, NC · CCN 340020	216	$2,061	About average	$1,642	$16,435
Rex HospitalRaleigh, NC · CCN 340114	1,219	$2,069	About average	$1,640	$10,156
Novant Health Presbyterian Medical CenterCharlotte, NC · CCN 340053	1,169	$2,069	About average	$1,643	$6,555
Duke Health Lake Norman HospitalMooresville, NC · CCN 340129	364	$2,070	About average	$1,624	$5,279
Johnston HealthSmithfield, NC · CCN 340090	308	$2,075	About average	$1,635	$9,742
Duke University HospitalDurham, NC · CCN 340030	1,160	$2,079	About average	$1,651	$14,837
Novant Health Rowan Medical CenterSalisbury, NC · CCN 340015	513	$2,079	About average	$1,653	$7,175
North Carolina Specialty HospitalDurham, NC · CCN 340049	591	$2,084	About average	$1,657	$5,202
Duke Health Raleigh HospitalRaleigh, NC · CCN 340073	407	$2,090	About average	$1,662	$11,670
Moses H. Cone The Memorial HospitalGreensboro, NC · CCN 340091	84	$2,090	About average	$1,664	$11,076
Person Memorial HospitalRoxboro, NC · CCN 340159	139	$2,091	About average	$1,656	$29,272
Carolinas Medical Center/Behavioral HealthCharlotte, NC · CCN 340113	14	$2,094	About average	$1,668	$21,350
Stanly Regional Medical CenterAlbemarle, NC · CCN 340119	100	$2,094	About average	$1,668	$20,013
WakeMed, Cary HospitalCary, NC · CCN 340173	223	$2,098	About average	$1,660	$16,093
Novant Health Thomasville Medical CenterThomasville, NC · CCN 340085	136	$2,099	About average	$1,667	$10,712
Davie Medical CenterBermuda Run, NC · CCN 340187	69	$2,100	About average	$1,665	$21,860
North Carolina Baptist HospitalWinston-Salem, NC · CCN 340047	425	$2,101	About average	$1,669	$23,717
Novant Health Forsyth Medical CenterWinston-Salem, NC · CCN 340014	642	$2,111	About average	$1,676	$6,462
UNC HospitalsChapel Hill, NC · CCN 340061	407	$2,115	About average	$1,680	$11,803
Alamance Regional Medical CenterBurlington, NC · CCN 340070	346	$2,118	About average	$1,681	$9,440
Onslow Memorial HospitalJacksonville, NC · CCN 340042	1,008	$2,119	About average	$1,675	$7,724
Watauga Medical CenterBoone, NC · CCN 340051	200	$2,137	About average	$1,696	$7,519
Southeastern Regional Medical CenterLumberton, NC · CCN 340050	105	$2,140	About average	$1,697	$10,314
Ecu Health North HospitalRoanoke Rapids, NC · CCN 340151	188	$2,144	About average	$1,694	$9,542
Sentara Albemarle Medical CenterElizabeth City, NC · CCN 340109	109	$2,156	About average	$1,707	$13,142
Carolina East Medical CenterNew Bern, NC · CCN 340131	1,620	$2,158	About average	$1,716	$7,221
Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical CenterWilmington, NC · CCN 340141	50	$2,172	About average	$1,730	$13,890
UNC Lenoir Health CareKinston, NC · CCN 340027	395	$2,204	About average	$1,750	$6,496

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

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National average payment and billed charge for Level 1 Intraocular Procedures
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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Average payment by state for Level 1 Intraocular Procedures, 2024
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.