HCPCS J7181 · 666 hospitals reporting

J7181

The same procedure costs $51.3 at one hospital and $67.06 at another — a 1× spread for what's billed under the same code. Median: $67.06.

Cheapest published

$51.3

17 entries below $50 already filtered. Remaining low values usually reflect partial-cost line items (professional fee only), not full bills.

Median across 666 hospitals

$67.06

The realistic middle of the cash-price distribution. Use this as your benchmark.

Most expensive

$67.06

Highest published price. Often a gross-charge "list price" rarely actually paid.

Price distribution

15 hospitals · log-scale x-axis

Each bar = number of hospitals charging in that price range. Emerald bar contains the median. Amber dots = entries we flagged as likely partial-cost line items (excluded from the table below).

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Why some prices look unrealistically low or high

Hospitals publish their machine-readable files (MRFs) the way they choose. A single procedure code can appear with very different prices depending on what's being charged:

Global price — facility + implant + anesthesia + surgeon. This is what you'd actually be billed.
Professional fee only — surgeon's portion. Often $500–$2,500 for a major procedure that costs $20K+ globally.
Facility fee only — operating room and recovery, no implant or surgeon.
Per-unit / per-minute charges — e.g. anesthesia time billed at $0.68/min appearing under a CPT code.
Rate multipliers — values like 0.85 meaning "85% of Medicare" rather than dollars.

We filter the most obvious artifacts (under $50, or 25× above the median), but rows in the $500–$2K range for a major procedure are typically professional-only and we can't always tell. Use the median and high-end as the realistic range; treat very low rows as partial-cost line items, not full bills.

500 hospitals reporting

Hospital	State	Gross	Cash price	Min negotiated	Max negotiated	Your insurer
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
UH REGIONAL HOSPITALS	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS PORTAGE MEDICAL CENTER	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
LAKE HEALTH	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
UH ST JOHN MEDICAL CENTER	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
UH CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTER	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS - ELYRIA MEDICAL CENTER	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS AHUJA MEDICAL CENTER	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CONNEAUT MEDICAL CENTER	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
RAINBOW BABIES AND CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	OH	$89.41	$67.06	—	—	0 insurers
VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL	CA	—	$63.62	$17.38	$54.08	0 insurers
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN/QUEENS	NY	—	$63.62	$17.38	$59.8	0 insurers
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL	NY	—	$63.62	$17.38	$59.8	0 insurers
HUDSON VALLEY HOSPITAL CENTER	NY	—	$63.62	$17.38	$54.08	0 insurers
NORTHWEST SURGICAL HOSPITAL	OK	—	$51.3	—	—	0 insurers
SHELBY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER	AL	—	—	$31.1	$112	0 insurers
THE EAST ALABAMA HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
THE EAST ALABAMA HEALTHCARE AUTHORITY	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
LAWRENCE MEDICAL CENTER	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
LAWRENCE MEDICAL CENTER	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
RUSSELL MEDICAL CENTER	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
BALDWIN HEALTH	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
GROVE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
EAMC - LANIER	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
EAMC - LANIER	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
J PAUL JONES HOSPITAL	AL	—	—	$15.57	$15.57	0 insurers
TANNER MEDICAL CENTER-EAST ALABAMA	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
TANNER MEDICAL CENTER-EAST ALABAMA	AL	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
ALASKA REGIONAL HOSPITAL	AK	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER	AZ	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL	AZ	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
HONORHEALTH SONORAN CROSSING MEDICAL CENTER	AZ	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
BENSON HOSPITAL	AZ	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
NORTHERN COCHISE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, INC.	AZ	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	AR	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL	AR	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
BRADLEY COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER	AR	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
PENINSULA MEDICAL CENTER	CA	—	—	—	—	0 insurers
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CTR-DAVIES CAMPUS HOSP	CA	—	—	—	—	0 insurers