How much does a laparoscopic gallbladder removal cost in the US?

Across 875 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $5,940, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $3,852 and $7,675. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $5,768 across the 436 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.

Why do Gallbladder Removal prices vary so much?

Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 10.1 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $1,104 in Montana to $12,480 in Oregon.

Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?

Sometimes. At 148 of the 436 hospitals that list a cash price (34%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.

What is the Medicare rate shown here?

$6,176 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 1.0 times it.

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Gallbladder Removal Cost in the US (2026): What 875 Hospitals NegotiatedNPI VERIFIED

Across 875 US hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate for a laparoscopic gallbladder removal is $5,940 — 1.0× the Medicare outpatient rate of $6,176. The middle half of hospitals negotiated between $3,852 and $7,675; the priciest tenth negotiated more than $12,248, 10.1× the cheapest tenth (under $1,210). Hospitals that list a self-pay price ask a median of $5,768 (436 hospitals).

Code CPT 47562 · Source: hospital machine-readable files (45 CFR §180), file dates 2022-11-12 to 2026-09-14 (median 2026-04-01) · Medicare baseline: CMS OPPS Addendum B, July 2026 · Data extracted 2026-10-06 · Page updated 2026-10-07

National median

$5,940

all plan types · 875 hospitals

Middle half

$3,852–$7,675

25th–75th percentile of hospitals

Median cash price

$5,768

self-pay · 436 hospitals list one

Medicare baseline

$6,176

CMS OPPS national · July 2026

875 hospitals, one bar per price band

median $5,940Medicare $6,176

$0$10,000$20,000

Each bar counts hospitals whose median rate falls in that price band; the last, dashed bar holds the 17 at $20,000 or more. The cheapest tenth negotiated under $1,210, the priciest tenth over $12,248 — 10.1× apart for the same procedure.

These are contract reference rates, not your bill. A median across hospitals is not a quote for your plan or network. Your out-of-pocket cost depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network status.

This is the hospital's facility fee for the outpatient procedure. The surgeon and anesthesia are billed separately.

Coverage: 875 of the 5,419 hospitals in the CMS roster have an identity-verified price file with this procedure in our data. It is not a random sample, and a hospital missing here has not been judged non-compliant — we may simply not have its file yet. 49 of these 875 hospital files were more than 12 months old at extraction — hospitals must update yearly; we keep the figures and say so rather than hide them.

By insurance type

Insurance type	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare
Commercial (plan type not stated)	490	$8,461	$3,629 – $13,868	1.4×
PPO	492	$8,640	$4,630 – $14,688	1.4×
HMO	346	$7,903	$5,177 – $12,513	1.3×
EPO	65	$9,026	$6,178 – $12,590	1.5×
POS	44	$7,966	$4,429 – $10,649	1.3×
ACA Marketplace	339	$8,709	$5,934 – $10,984	1.4×
Medicare Advantage	436	$5,833	$5,160 – $6,362	0.9×
Medicare (as listed)	483	$6,009	$5,594 – $6,478	1.0×
Medicaid	447	$3,600	$1,889 – $5,472	0.6×
Workers' comp	65	$2,718	$1,435 – $10,193	0.4×

Plan types are grouped from each hospital's plan names. Each figure is a median of hospital-level medians; types with fewer than 20 hospitals are left out.

By state

State	Hospitals	Median	Middle half	× Medicare	Median cash
Alabama	14	$5,263	$5,132 – $5,503	0.9×	$6,864
Arizona	11	$3,669	$3,669 – $6,573	0.6×	$5,170
Arkansas	13	$5,535	$1,045 – $5,937	0.9×	$7,005
California	31	$7,737	$7,138 – $13,128	1.3×	$7,737
Florida	35	$6,660	$4,531 – $6,692	1.1×	$2,740
Georgia	24	$7,602	$5,716 – $9,116	1.2×	$6,825
Hawaii	7	$5,775	$5,718 – $6,377	0.9×	$479
Idaho	9	$1,241	$967 – $12,105	0.2×	$2,104
Illinois	28	$6,331	$2,678 – $6,785	1.0×	$3,286
Indiana	17	$7,675	$6,294 – $12,792	1.2×	$7,355
Iowa	31	$1,676	$1,284 – $4,979	0.3×	$1,836
Kansas	28	$5,618	$3,390 – $7,820	0.9×	$5,743
Kentucky	25	$5,486	$3,447 – $5,790	0.9×	$3,004
Louisiana	17	$5,365	$1,860 – $6,972	0.9×	$2,620
Maine	5	$4,925	$822 – $5,978	0.8×	$1,818
Massachusetts	6	$6,013	$5,453 – $6,793	1.0×	$15,771
Michigan	24	$4,541	$3,191 – $6,024	0.7×	$7,041
Minnesota	24	$5,866	$5,508 – $6,126	0.9×	$3,106
Mississippi	17	$5,410	$5,343 – $5,771	0.9×	$11,566
Missouri	28	$5,824	$3,271 – $6,014	0.9×	$9,302
Montana	6	$1,104	$815 – $1,863	0.2×	$2,286
Nebraska	24	$5,542	$1,279 – $6,770	0.9×	$7,485
New Hampshire	6	$8,902	$6,031 – $15,456	1.4×	—
New Jersey	19	$8,864	$6,802 – $9,396	1.4×	$5,580
New Mexico	11	$6,645	$6,078 – $15,286	1.1×	$4,418
New York	33	$6,658	$5,528 – $7,471	1.1×	$6,653
North Carolina	15	$5,640	$5,487 – $5,908	0.9×	$10,521
North Dakota	6	$2,111	$1,357 – $5,207	0.3×	$1,978
Ohio	48	$6,223	$5,551 – $13,806	1.0×	$17,445
Oklahoma	21	$6,109	$5,590 – $11,085	1.0×	$11,043
Oregon	17	$12,480	$7,224 – $13,723	2.0×	$10,668
Pennsylvania	50	$5,910	$5,565 – $6,359	1.0×	$6,064
South Carolina	17	$8,743	$5,732 – $9,680	1.4×	$13,362
South Dakota	5	$4,739	$1,777 – $6,009	0.8×	$5,637
Tennessee	16	$5,671	$5,594 – $5,963	0.9×	$7,108
Texas	86	$5,904	$4,866 – $6,600	1.0×	$6,730
Utah	13	$6,733	$6,733 – $8,709	1.1×	—
Vermont	6	$4,210	$1,606 – $5,735	0.7×	$1,919
Virginia	15	$8,432	$6,193 – $12,355	1.4×	$4,998
Washington	15	$2,161	$673 – $7,941	0.3×	$2,359
Wisconsin	26	$6,384	$3,003 – $12,707	1.0×	$1,682
Wyoming	6	$5,527	$4,129 – $6,323	0.9×	$6,230

middle half of hospitalsstate medianMedicare rate · a dotted end means the range runs past $20,000

States with at least 5 hospitals in our data (42 states). 8 smaller states are counted in the national figures but not listed — a median of two or three hospitals says more about those hospitals than about the state.

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Hospital-level and insurer-level rates for this procedure are in the full dataset. A free three-procedure sample (brain MRI, head CT, diagnostic colonoscopy) is open under CC BY 4.0: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23199844 · Kaggle.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a laparoscopic gallbladder removal cost in the US?: Across 875 hospitals that publish federally required price files, the median negotiated rate is $5,940, and the middle half of hospitals fall between $3,852 and $7,675. Self-pay cash prices have a median of $5,768 across the 436 hospitals that list one. What you pay out of pocket depends on your deductible, coinsurance and network.
Why do Gallbladder Removal prices vary so much?: Each hospital negotiates separately with each insurer. In these files the priciest tenth of hospitals negotiated more than 10.1 times what the cheapest tenth did, and state medians run from $1,104 in Montana to $12,480 in Oregon.
Is the cash price cheaper than using insurance?: Sometimes. At 148 of the 436 hospitals that list a cash price (34%), it is lower than that hospital's own median negotiated rate. If you have a high deductible, ask the hospital for its self-pay price before you book.
What is the Medicare rate shown here?: $6,176 is the CMS national outpatient (OPPS) payment rate for this service (July 2026). We show it as a government baseline: the national median negotiated rate is 1.0 times it.

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